Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

I THINK IT MEANS SOMETHING THAT THEY’RE ASKING THIS QUESTION IN THE NEW YORK TIMES: Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace? It certainly has leftists’ panties in a wad.

The thing to remember is that feminism doesn’t address the needs and desires of women as such. It addresses the needs and desires of a certain subset of upscale educated women. Perhaps coincidentally, women’s happiness on the General Social Survey has fallen steadily since feminism got traction.

BUMMER: With government shutdown impacting FAA, commercial space launches from Florida get curfew. It’s more like a reverse curfew, really: “It is hereby ordered that, beginning at 6:00 a.m. EST on November 10, 2025, and until this Order is cancelled, Commercial space launches and reentries will only be permitted between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. local time,” according to the emergency order released yesterday.

THIS REACTION SEEMS RIGHT. Dems won elections in states Trump lost. GOP could have done better, should have done better, but the legacy media are trying to turn this into some kind of momentum event. What the GOP needs to focus on is what it can do better, which is mostly on-the-ground turnout operations.

Related: Liberal Analyst Warns Dems: So What? Big Deal. “Does that mean that Democrats discovered the key to the Resistance, as they and their allies in the Protection Racket Media gloated last night? Liberal analyst and pundit Ruy Teixeira threw a gallon of cold water on that notion today at the Free Press. Democrats had already demonstrated an ability to win in low-turnout elections, Teixeira writes, and none of these wins speak to actual momentum in higher-turnout elections — such as midterms, and in purple and red turf.” Yes, winning low-turnout elections in blue states is good for morale, and demoralizing to some Republicans — especially when the press amplifies the Democrats’ spin, as always — but it’s not really much of a flex.

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