Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

THE DECLINE OF OUR INSTITUTIONS:

THE CONSTITUTION ONLY MATTERS WHEN IT HELPS DEMOCRATS ADVANCE THEIR AGENDA:

PETER THIEL: Capitalism Isn’t Working for Young People. “If you graduated in 1970 with no student debt, compare that to the millennial experience: too many people go to college, they don’t learn anything, and they end up with incredibly burdensome debt. Student debt is a version of this generational conflict that I’ve talked about for a long time. The rupture of the generational compact isn’t limited to student debt, either. I think you can reduce 80 percent of culture wars to questions of economics—like a libertarian or a Marxist would—and then you can reduce maybe 80 percent of economic questions to questions of real estate.”

Of course, the cronyism we have isn’t really capitalism at all.

HOW SURPRISED ARE YOU?

JULIE KELLY: Is John Brennan Next? “Expect more tears on MSNBC over the next several months.”

YEP:

A QUIET COUP, FOR “OUR DEMOCRACY.”

We need brutally strict regulation of NGOs and nonprofits. To save, you know, actual democracy.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THIS WAS BRIEFLY FORGOTTEN, FOR SOME REASON, BUT IS NOW BACK:

OUCH.