Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

A MESSAGE FROM A PART OF AMERICA THAT STILL WORKS:

It’s nowhere near the only such part, but it is highly visible and impressive.

SHOT: “But you don’t get Hitler because of Hitler. There are always potential Hitlers out there. You get Hitler because of Weimar, and you get Weimar because the people charged with maintaining a liberal polity are too corrupt and incompetent — or crazy — to maintain a liberal polity.”

Chaser: Germany Is Being Served Up on a Platter to the Far Right: On the unintended consequences of anti-nuclear zealotry.

Though the sensible prescriptions the “far right” is offering — mostly clean cheap energy and an end to unrestricted immigration by foreigners with no desire to assimilate peacefully — is hardly worthy of comparison to Hitler, or Nehemiah Scudder.

I’M SENSING SOME LEFTY REGRET ABOUT UNLEASHING THE HATE:

IT’S HARD TO PUT THE HATE-GENIE BACK IN THE BOTTLE ONCE YOU GLEEFULLY RELEASE IT, JOE:

OPEN THREAD: Do it on the weekend, and it’ll beeee allll right.

IT’S COME TO THIS:

UPDATE: From the comments. Mike Lee has had it.

DRIVE NOTES: 2024 Lexus TX. “This is a pretty solid effort and definitely a nice, luxurious take on the Toyota Grand Highlander. It’s unremarkable but packaged well enough that Lexus will likely sell plenty.”