Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

JOEL KOTKIN: Far-Left teachers are indoctrinating children to hate the West. “The NEA is clearly taking political sides, claiming that it is pledging ‘to defend democracy against Trump’s embrace of fascism’. The union is also adamant in defending undocumented immigrants, opposing parental rights, and pledging to back mass demonstrations against the administration. This approach is seen by boosters as ‘social justice unionism’, adding political stances to the usual economic ones.”

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: A Response to Jack Rakove. “These claims are not correct, and Rakove puts not a shred of evidence forward supporting his positions. . . . Professor Rakove’s blaming on the Supreme Court today’s lack of controlling and persuasive precedent regarding the meaning of the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments and Domestic Emoluments Clauses is, at best, mistaken, and at worst, Orwellian.”

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

WE NEED NEW ANTIBIOTICS: Ancient Killer Is Rapidly Becoming Resistant to Antibiotics, Warns Study. “In spite of having plagued humans for millennia, typhoid fever is rarely considered in developed countries today. But this ancient threat is still very much a danger in our modern world. According to research published in 2022, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever is evolving extensive drug resistance, and is rapidly replacing strains that aren’t resistant.”