HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Amherst removes officials behind sexually graphic freshman orientation programming.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
January 19, 2026
STANDING UP FOR FREE SPEECH: America First Legal sends letter to Boston University defending student who received death threats after ICE report.
2017 FLASHBACK: Trump and the crisis of the meritocracy. “As I’ve pondered this, I’ve gone back to Tyler Cowen’s statement: ‘Occasionally the real force behind a political ideology is the subconsciously held desire that a certain group of people should not be allowed to rise in relative status.’ I think that a lot of the elite hatred for Trump, and for his supporters, stems from just such a sentiment.”
Plus this; “The elites lost their mojo by becoming absurd. It happened on the road between cultural appropriation and transgender bathrooms.”
HE’S A DEADBEAT CAD: Hunter Biden’s Baby Mama Wants Him Jailed Over Broken Child Support Deal.
What’s the big deal, Hunter? Just sell a couple of paintings!
TO DEMOCRATS THAT’S NOT A BUG, IT’S A FEATURE:
Senator….
The US spends $5T on healthcare.
We spend more on healthcare than the entire GDP of all but two countries on earth.
The problem isn’t that we don’t spend enough on healthcare. The problem is that the money goes to your political donors instead of to patients. https://t.co/g8fE0ujAm1
— Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA (@DrDiGiorgio) January 18, 2026
STUPID PEOPLE DOING STUPID THINGS:
What a perfect encapsulation of the progressive left: a bunch of white people threatening and assaulting a non-white dude, in the name of tolerance. https://t.co/Iz9bL84nxQ
— Legal Phil (@Legal_Fil) January 18, 2026
Also vicious people doing vicious things.
YES:
When I was young, I believed smart people always saw things clearly and were thus immune to terrible ideas. What I've realized since then is that they do often embrace bad ideas, but unlike dumb people, they're good at coming up with sophistry in defense of those ideas.
— jojo (@jojo193713) January 19, 2026
Related: The Suicide of Expertise.
THAT’S DIFFERENT, BECAUSE SHUT UP:
Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to suppress peaceful protest, and desegregate Little Rock, Arkansas, at gunpoint. Not the National Guard, but the U.S.’s plain old Regular Army. Equipped with live rounds. For 1/1,000th of what leftists are currently doing in Minneapolis. https://t.co/vpnGe6qgHB
— Sólionath (@Anarseldain) January 18, 2026
AFTER MICHAEL BELLESILES — AND A NUMBER OF “EXPERT WITNESS” HISTORIANS I’VE OBSERVED — I WOULDN’T TRUST THEM ANYWAY: Second Amendment Roundup: Expert Historian Testimony Is Unnecessary in Second Amendment Litigation.
A DEMOCRACY, HOW DOES IT WORK?
I thought a functioning republic elected its leaders and allowed them to pursue the policies they promised, but I guess not. https://t.co/b07xgaiHz1
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 18, 2026
When Democrats talk about democracy, they mean rule by Democrats.
REMINDER:
This is needed to save democracy in America https://t.co/jSoISFIQgq
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 16, 2026
January 18, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX creates history: Musk’s Falcon 9 rocket launches to space 600th time.
HEY, WITH DON LEMON I’M JUST GRATEFUL IT’S NOT SEXUAL ASSAULT:
Every protester in this video has committed a federal crime
They can all be easily identified
Don Lemon needs to be in custody by the end of the day if the administration is to ever be taken seriously again https://t.co/0A54AHGuSK
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) January 18, 2026
STALIN’S AUTHORITARIANISM WAS LEFT AUTHORITARIANISM, AND THE AMERICAN LEFT WAS LARGELY OKAY WITH IT:
“Authoritarianism is bad—unless it’s leftist authoritarianism”
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) January 18, 2026
EXERCISE IS MEDICINE: The Best Medicine For Joint Pain Isn’t What You Think, Says Expert.
RIGHT?
I'm no historian but I don't think there's ever been a situation in the last 100 years where the people storming the churches were the good guys. https://t.co/oGwZeQK4kC
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 18, 2026
UPDATE:
"Me and my street militia are going around demanding to see people's papers and shutting down churches. You know, to fight fascism"
— Seamus (FreedomToons) (@seamus_coughlin) January 18, 2026
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Business Is Apparently Selling AI-Hallucination-Filled Documents to Unwary Litigants, Court Says.
SOMEONE SHOULD MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT THIS: Ford’s Betting Hard on its 30-Year-Old V8 to Beat Ferrari Again.
DRAMA QUEEN GENERAL: California AG Bonta Files for En Banc Review of Open Carry Ruling to Ward Off ‘Fear, Chaos, and Intimidation.’
Dude, take a Midol and chill.
FIGHT THE POWER: Sacramento teachers seek to remove union control.