April 7, 2026

April 6, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Believe me, you can get all the tubes of Winsor & Newton paint you want in Cincinnati, but the artists keep migrating to New York all the same … You can see them six days a week … hot off the Carey airport bus, lined up in front of the real-estate office on Broome Street in their identical blue jeans, gum boots, and quilted Long March jackets … looking, of course, for the inevitable Open Thread.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

LEFTISTS DON’T RECOGNIZE, OR HONOR, COMPETENCE. ONLY CREDENTIALS.

Posted at 9:23 pm by Glenn Reynolds

FLIPPING THE SCRIPT:

 

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

THERE’S A LOT TO FEAR FROM THOSE SPOOKY LIBERTARIANS — THEY’RE TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE GOVERNMENT . . . AND THEN LEAVE YOU ALONE!

Zero regulations? Trump really would be the Worst. Hitler. Ever.

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? David E. Kelley to Develop Bonfire of the Vanities Series at Apple TV, Matt Reeves to Direct.

David E. Kelley is setting his sights on a TV adaptation of “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” Variety has learned from sources.

Kelley is set to write a TV adaptation of the beloved Tom Wolfe novel for Apple TV. Kelley will also executive produce under his David E. Kelley Productions banner. Matt Reeves is attached to direct and executive produce via 6th and Idaho Productions. Sarah Geismer will also executive produce for 6th and Idaho, and Matthew Tinker will executive produce via David E. Kelley Productions. Warner Bros. Television is the studio.

Reps for Apple TV declined to comment.

“The Bonfire of the Vanities” was originally published as a serial in Rolling Stone beginning in 1984 before it was published as a whole in 1987. The book explores life in New York City in 1987 from the perspective of Wall Street bond trader Sherman McCoy, whose yuppie lifestyle begins to fall apart following an incident in the Bronx. The book was previously adapted into a film in 1990 starring Tom Hanks, Kim Cattrall, Melanie Griffith, and Bruce Willis.

Curiously, there’s no mention in the Variety article of what a spectacular train wreck that film was. Julie Salamon’s brilliant book, The Devil’s Candy, documents all of the poor decisions and disastrous politically correct choices Brian De Palma made to neuter his adaptation of Wolfe’s seminal 1980s novel. Can this miniseries produce an even bigger flaming wreck? Survey says…maybe!

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

ARTEMIS II ASTRONAUTS IN TEARS AS THEY BREAK APOLLO 13 RECORD:

Nasa’s Moon astronauts have flown further from Earth than anyone before them, in a “milestone for humankind”.
The four crew members were in tears as they celebrated the record aboard their tiny Orion capsule, nearly 250,000 miles from home.

And the astronauts chose that moment to propose the name “Carroll” for a lunar crater, in honour of the late wife of Commander Reid Wiseman.

Col Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency, one of the crew’s two mission specialists, said: “From the cabin of Integrity here, as we surpass the furthest distance humans have ever travelled from planet Earth, we do so in honouring the extraordinary efforts and feats of our predecessors in human space exploration.”

Col Hansen continued: “We will continue our journey even further into space before mother Earth succeeds in pulling us back to everything that we hold dear.

“But we most importantly choose this moment to challenge this generation and in the next to make sure this record is not long-lived.”

Nasa announced the news on Monday night, saying: “A new milestone for humankind: the crew of Artemis II are now the farthest any human has ever travelled, reaching a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth.”

Of course, there may be a second reason why the astronauts are in tears: Crisis in space as Artemis II toilet breaks leaving astronauts with no other options.

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

JONATHAN TURLEY: Poison Ivey: Chicago Bulls Release Forward After He Speaks Out Against Pride Month.

This week, the Chicago Bulls waived guard Jaden Ivey for “conduct detrimental to the team.” No, Ivey did not assault anyone or gamble on games. He did not call for violence. Ivey expressed his opposing religious beliefs, including criticizing the NBA’s Pride Month celebrations.

There is no question that private companies have the right to control employees’ on-the-job speech, including barring demonstrations such as kneeling during the national anthem. However, the Ivey controversy exposes the hypocrisy of sports associations and teams in the combination of corporate virtue signaling and athlete speech limitations.

Companies in various fields have asserted the right to condition contracts on the possibility of termination due to public behavior or comments that are detrimental to the company.

Notably, this was a player speaking off the basketball court who was deemed “detrimental” to the brand. The main concern is the lack of consistency. Actors such as Rachel Zegler have tanked their own movies to use their platforms to advance their own political viewpoints. Likewise, athletes have routinely espoused controversial views on racial divisions or law enforcement without losing their contracts. Recently, teams supported athletes espousing anti-ICE sentiments. In other words, it is not advocacy but the cause that these companies focus on when allowing or punishing speech.

At the same time, the NFL and NBA require players to wear and espouse views that some of them — like some in the nation — may oppose. Ivey was objecting that he does not feel that Pride Month is espousing “righteous” lifestyles. Ivey was not attacking the Bulls or the game. He was asserting that he does not support the virtues or values being endorsed by the company.

America’s Newspaper of Record posits a solution for the Bulls:

Posted at 8:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

GOD AND MAN AT YALE, AND FORT WORTH: My look at the Treasures of the Holy Sepulcher exhibition at Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, and the closing of the European mind, over at EdDriscoll.com.

Posted at 6:40 pm by Ed Driscoll

JUST REFUGEES, FLEEING PERSECUTION, TRYING TO MAKE A BETTER LIFE. NO LOVE FROM THE DEMOCRATS, THOUGH.

Posted at 6:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: How Texas Kicks Europe’s Ass. “Through all of that, the Texas economy just kept climbing. The productivity gap tells the same story. Between late 2019 and mid 2024, labor productivity per hour in the Euro zone rose by 0.9%. In the US, it rose by 6.7%. Texas led that charge.”

Posted at 4:50 pm by Stephen Green

HOW DO WE REFORM LAW SCHOOL ADMISSIONS? Some suggestions here, because let’s face it, AI is not going to make lawyers obsolete. (And that’s not just because we lawyers will make that illegal…)

Posted at 4:37 pm by Robert Shibley </