Too Pessimistic
The Origins of Our Second Civil War by Victor Davis Hanson. The first half of this VDH piece seems over-the-top. Would the intermarriage and cultural assimilation that he cites in his next-to-last...
View ArticleSeth Barrett Tillman: Free Speech in Andrew McCabe’s America: A Post on...
Important points: In his 60 Minutes interview, former acting FBI director McCabe said: There were a number of things that caused us to believe that we had adequate predication or adequate reason and...
View ArticleSeth Barrett Tillman: Conlawprof, Voters, and Brexit
Professor BBB wrote: “Not to mention the lies and manipulation of the Leave campaign, which just exacerbated the problem [for voters].” Notice how Professor BBB feels no need to explain what those lies...
View ArticleRep. Ocasio Luxury Yacht
Sarah Hoyt: But we should not treat their instrument, sent forth to try to break our system, as some kind of serious intellectual, or even, as I’ve heard Representative Full Stop called, “energetic and...
View ArticleSeth Barrett Tillman: Today’s Question On CONLAWPROF: Where Would You Put Trump?
Professor ZZZ asks: “Trump is not Stalin but in the history of national (federal) political figures in this country, I’m wondering … where [would] you put Trump? … Having a POTUS so publicly awful...
View ArticleSeth Barrett Tillman: Why Obama and Clinton Described the Sri Lankan Victims...
Why do senior politicians across the Western world systematically engage in this and other similar sorts of newspeak? Here, I suggest, Obama and Clinton (and their peers) believe millions of otherwise...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
Dennis Prager, quoting and expanding on Bret Stephens’s explanation of how the New York Times could come to publish an obviously anti-Jewish cartoon: “The reason is the almost torrential criticism of...
View Article“Red Flag” Laws
From this helpful summary of recent trends in US gun laws at Ammo.com: After a wave of mass shootings in 2017 and 2018, one of the most fashionable pushes for gun control was the rise of so-called “red...
View ArticleSeth Barrett Tillman: Conlawprof and Climate Change
Interesting observations: On August 18, 2019, on Conlawprof, Professor BBB wrote: Your note reveals a common misunderstanding of the predictive models. First, the models tend to under-predict. That...
View ArticleStories and Society
There’s a promising new Substack, The Story Rules Project, written by Erin O’Connor and Maurice Black. Their subject: How stories affect the human mind and emotions, and how they can be used to reduce...
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