Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
October 5, 2026
JONATHAN TURLEY: The blue-state model for education has failed, and the public has caught on. “New polling shows that K-12 education has now reached a record low in the number of people who are even “somewhat satisfied” with the state of education in the U.S. What is most troubling is that the near-total contempt for our school system does not make a bit of difference. Families and students have become largely irrelevant to an education cartel, a self-sustaining, self-perpetuating political alliance of unions and politicians.”
WHO KNEW HE WAS “FAR RIGHT” DECADES AGO?
I just found the most brilliant bit by @JohnCleese
He explains Leftism better in 90 seconds, than you could learn from any academic in 20 years. pic.twitter.com/xtubCcbRdi
— Dr Manhattva (@Manhattva) October 3, 2026
I BELIEVE THE SOCIETAL/RELATIONAL DAMAGE IS ACTUALLY THE POINT:
The biggest issue raised by Jane Doe vs. the Cornell 7 isn't simply who is responsible. It is what the controversy could do to relations between men and women at a moment when American social life is already in trouble.
Young Americans are increasingly lonely and unhappy.…— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) October 4, 2026
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Related:
“It was so wrong when women’s husbands had control over their finances and freedoms.”
“Unrelated men should totally call the cops on a woman who wants to have sex.”
Pick one. https://t.co/AbjMUnL03T
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) October 4, 2026
IT’S ALL POLITICS NOW:
Yes, many critical-social-justice dogmas can't withstand intellectual scrutiny, so their proponents try to protect them via intimidation and walling off the university commons. Civil discourse and viewpoint diversity are threats to this tactic. https://t.co/zlvJCBsTa2
— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) October 3, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The End of College as We Know It: AI is wreaking havoc in universities, but higher ed’s woes long predate ChatGPT.
What’s the matter with universities? Syracuse missed its 2026 enrollment target and may run a $30 million deficit. Minnesota is cutting its budget by $225 million over two years. Tulsa is slashing tuition by more than half. Colleges enroll 4.2% fewer undergraduates than last year. Cornell, Yale, Vanderbilt and Washington University in St. Louis put out plans—not radical enough, if you ask me—to reimagine the university. Wossamotta U?
Colleges are known for left-leaning professors, speech suppression, bizarre courses—Occidental College taught “The Unbearable Whiteness of Barbie”—and easy grading more than critical thinking, judgment and problem solving. It’s easy to blame artificial intelligence, but problems run deeper. . . .
According to Gallup, in 2013, 70% of Americans said college was very important. Today it’s only 31%. If universities don’t change, more than a few will implode, while others will wither away over decades. AI and alternative forms of learning are already rising. Something radical is needed to stop the decay of our once great universities. Who will step up?
Who indeed? The link above is supposed to be a free link, but in case it doesn’t work for you, you can read the whole article here, too. And you should.
COMPARE AND CONTRAST:
Falcon 9 flew more missions in ONE YEAR than the entire Space Shuttle program flew in 30 years
• The entire Shuttle fleet:
135 missions from 1981–2011• Falcon 9 in 2025 alone:
165 launchesSpaceX exceeded the Shuttle program’s entire lifetime mission count by 30 launches in… pic.twitter.com/xUjhOexVpQ
— X Freeze (@XFreeze) October 3, 2026
A BIG WIN FOR BOLSONARO:
🚨BREAKING: Flávio Bolsonaro has officially WON the first round of the Brazilian Presidential Elections, with millions more votes than communist tyrant Lula
The polls got it horribly wrong.
CHANGE is coming to Brazil! 🇧🇷 pic.twitter.com/yrCEN2DgKl
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) October 5, 2026
It's possible, but the huge popular wave in favor of the Bolsonaro movement across Brazil will make that kind of flagrantly anti-democratic behavior more difficult.
But the STF has been shameless and without limits, so I put nothing past them. I'm sure they're plotting.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 5, 2026
Weird:
Americans were literally financing movements intended to destroy their way of life. https://t.co/AVMlQ4C0Xy
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) October 5, 2026
UPDATE (From Ed): MMGA?
Looking at this map, how long until Trump demands regime change in Mexico?
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 4, 2026
October 4, 2026
USA TODAY BRINGS COMMON SENSE: The ‘Cornell 7’ haven’t been charged. The mob doesn’t care: What’s most troubling in the Cornell University rape allegations is that onlookers have already made up their minds about who is to blame. “The pictures of these young men who have not been charged, not been adjudicated, are being plastered all over the internet. I think people are reporting this story inaccurately. I think they are reporting it unfairly. And while this is something that we have to take very seriously, there is no way, according to her statement in 2024, that any prosecutor would have brought this court case.”
The important part is activating the Dems’ psychotic-women base between now and election day.
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
FIGHT THE POWER:
The people of Brazil are SWARMING the streets as Flavio Bolsonaro currently leads against the man who threw his father in jail.
What we are witnessing in South America is the total rejection of Communist tyrants and the embrace of freedom. pic.twitter.com/R1McEBwDnq
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 4, 2026
IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Scientists Directly Observe the Hidden Geometry of Electrons.
THE STARK WARNINGS ARE USUALLY WRONG:
TRUMP'S TRANS CIVIL RIGHTS TRIUMPH: New data show a predicted Trump-era targeting of trans people failed to materialize, even as LGBTQ leaders warned of an ‘epidemic’ of ‘danger,’ ‘violence,’ ‘murder’ and even ‘terrorism.’ https://t.co/4lZKr7G9oK
— David Mastio (@DavidMastio) October 3, 2026
This isn’t what was expected. When Mr. Trump began his second term by unleashing a barrage of policies that infuriated LGBTQ groups — on the military, identity documents, housing, health care and more — trans advocates thought that the “genocide” they had been warning of for more than a decade would soon arrive. They issued stark warnings. . . .
As the nearly 200 state laws piled up, one of America’s oldest civil rights groups, the American Civil Liberties Union, sounded the alarm. “Anti-transgender laws endanger LGBTQ+ people and their allies. Research also points to … [an] increase in antiLGBTQ+ violence as a result of these laws. Trend analysis of FBI crime data and social media harassment indicate an uptick in violence against LGBTQ+ people following anti-transgender legislation,” the group’s researchers warned.
That wave of violence didn’t happen, either, an absence attributed by an ACLU spokeswoman, Gillian Bransetter, to an overall pattern of declining crime across the country. “If violence is down for everyone else (and it is) it only makes sense that it is down for trans people, too, and that doesn’t change or contradict the impact of anti-trans laws on our risk for violence or our overall higher risk for violence when compared to our cisgender peers,” Ms. Branstetter told the Sun.
Well, Trump has brought down crime in major urban areas, which benefits everyone, but the alarmism of many “rights” groups in his administration has generally been bogus.
R.I.P. SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP:
The Pentagon confirms that all B-1 bombers deployed to RAF Fairford in the UK have returned to the US:
"Due to operational security considerations, we could not confirm the aircraft's movement in real time; however, we can now confirm that all US bombers deployed to RAF Fairford… pic.twitter.com/vwI4PwNJLW
— Eli Afriat 🇮🇱 (@EliAfriatISR) October 4, 2026
As Britain — and most of the rest of Europe — look to become Islamist/Communist nations, the US will be reconfiguring, as it should. I assume we’re planning a way to take control of or eliminate their nuclear arsenals, too, if it comes to that.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: The Obstacles of Low Range and High Price: 2026 Jeep Recon EV Tested.
CONFUSION TO THE ENEMY: The Start to a Great Weekend: Waking Up to Find that Everytown and ATF Have Been Sh!tposting At Each Other.
Related:
As much as the black pilled doomers loved to cry about how the Trump admin hasn’t fixed every problem in America… I’d like to point our this is the current ATF director telling some Everytown For Gun Safety dude to fuck off.
Keep in mind two years ago Biden’s ATF director was… https://t.co/HiXx6gXLcw
— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) October 3, 2026
HMM: The Aging Brain Isn’t Declining – It’s Adapting, Study Finds. “There might be an evolutionary purpose to all this: For those of us lucky enough to make it to old age, the priority becomes passing on information, rather than trying to remember the specifics of day-to-day life.”
I’ve often thought that the reason why old people repeat old stories and lose their distant memory last is because as tribal memory stores, they need to download their storage before they die.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How often should you actually replace your sneakers?. More often than you think.
I LOVE BENT-OVER ROWS: Skip the Shrugs: This Old-School Row Hammers Your Mid-Back Instead. But, you know, they’re different exercises and do different things.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Record-low three in ten Americans consider college ‘very important’: poll.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Why Is Mark Carney Preparing for an American Invasion?