Seth Barrett Tillman: The Casual Bigotry of Xeni Jardin and Jardin’s Many...
Excerpt: Sadly, Isis kills lots of people. Some Muslim, some non-Muslim. Did Jardin mean that if Isis murdered only atheists, Yazidi, Christians, etc, then all would be well, and that Isis would not be...
View ArticleSeth Barrett Tillman: Trump, Academia, and Hyperbole
Excerpt: As to the Article XII argument …. In a peer reviewed journal article, Professor Somin wrote: “[T]he Privileges and Immunities Clause requires states to treat migrants from other states on par...
View ArticleSeth Barrett Tillman: Tillman’s Poetry Corner: Flanders Fields
This is interesting: John McCrae’s Flanders Fields is iconic. No more need be said. Unfortunately, its meaning has been distorted by the most popular voice and instrumental accompaniment. This new...
View ArticleHow to Get a Complex/Technical Bill Through a Legislature
In 1751, Lord Chesterfield decided that the time had come for England to switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. In a letter to his son, he explained how he got this done: I consulted the...
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Seth Barrett Tillman: Responding to Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain in The Guardian…
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View ArticleSeth Barrett Tillman: Bob Bauer’s Free Speech Problem and Ours
We have a free speech problem in America. I have talked about it before. It starts with the judiciary. See Seth Barrett Tillman, This Is What Is Wrong with the American Judiciary, The New Reform Club...
View ArticleShithole Countries
Anecdote of a recent conversation: A: Where are you from? B: A bad part of Kingston. A: What part is that? B: All of it. Did Trump say “shithole”? It sounds like his typical bombast that enrages people...
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Theodore Dalrymple: But censorship by language reform is not a matter of logic, it is a matter of power. As Humpty Dumpty said, it is a question of who is to be master (if one may still be allowed the...
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The Last Realist
©2002 Everett Raymond Kinstler Source By now you’ve all seen, heard, and read that the great Tom Wolfe died this week. His social satire and sardonic wit carved out a distinctive path through...
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Assistant Village Idiot: The Cause of the Week is never reported accurately. It is chosen for emotional elements which suspend rational thought. It’s literally true!
View ArticleSeth Barrett Tillman: CONLAWPROF: A Post on Nativists and White Supremacists
Quoted in full: Got it. It is all clear now. You wrote: “It is a bald racial appeal to [Trump’s] white supremacist, nativist base.” When you wrote the above, you were not saying that Trump’s base...
View ArticleToo 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...
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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...
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