Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
December 8, 2025
I’VE SEEN THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE DAMAGE DONE: COVID School Reopenings Quickly Cut Childhood Anxiety, Depression, and ADHD.
ROGER SIMON: Our AI Future Has Its Problems: Ask Freud.
OUT TOMORROW: Kurt Schlichter’s latest Kelly Turnbull novel, Panama Red.
A GUT-CHECK FOR LEFTIST BIGOTRY: Lefties Can Now Wrestle With the Horror of Discovering Their Friends Own Guns in the Safety of a Chicago Theater.
WELL, GOOD: Supreme Court seems likely to give Trump more power over agencies. Under the Constitution, there’s no such thing as an “Independent Agency.”
WE WILL ALL BENEFIT AS NEW TREATMENTS SPREAD: The billionaire war against death: What happens to the rest of us when the rich stop planning to die?
It may be bad news for estate-planning lawyers.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: F-35 fighter now armed with the ‘no escape’ Mach 4 ramjet Meteor missile.
VITAMIN D UPDATE: The #1 Mistake You’re Making When You Take Vitamin D. Spoiler: It’s taking D2 instead of D3.
THAT’S DIFFERENT, BECAUSE SHUT UP:
Matt Taibbi was talking on his podcast about how no one flinched during Obama’s presidency when they’d carry out the ‘double tap’ drone strikes:
They’d drop a bomb on some ostensible terrorists.
And then they’d wait and drop another bomb on the first responders: maybe some more…
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) December 7, 2025
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE:
One of the chief turning points will have been when leading scientists were explaining why it was too dangerous for grandma to have a funeral but not too dangerous for thousands of BLM protesters to gather at a protest. https://t.co/QqpP4NmLdN
— Sunny (@sunnyright) December 7, 2025
WELL SAID:
…We now know that Mayorkas's claim that there was nothing else that they could do was false. Within weeks, using the same authority, the current Administration effectively stopped such illegal crossings on the Southern border.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) December 8, 2025
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Lawmakers demand changes at U. Oklahoma after student’s Bible essay got a zero: Oklahomans are ‘fed up’ with bias against conservatives and Christians in higher ed, senator says. I said for decades that higher education could not forever set itself openly against the society it demanded support from. The chickens are coming home to roost.
SORRY, EUROPE, YOU’RE GOING TO BE MOCKED AND BELITTLED BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT:
Indeed 🤣
So many politicians in Europe who are traitors to their own people. https://t.co/OjP4C0Unwo
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 7, 2025
IT’S A GIANT MONEY LAUNDRY AND INFLUENCE FACTORY:
The Democratic party is the tail wagged by an enormous nonprofit industrial complex with millions of white collar rent-seekers who depend on it for their livelihoods and move in lockstep to generate the same policy outputs regardless of which figureheads nominally occupy elected… https://t.co/2YvrfsqG0H
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) December 8, 2025
THE JUDICIARY IS NOT DOING MUCH TO MAINTAIN A REPUTATION FOR JUDICIOUSNESS LATELY: The Baffling Opinion in the Yakoby v. University of Pennsylvania Title VI Case: The court’s rationale for dismissing the case simply ignores the plaintiffs’ allegations.
HE’S RIGHT, AS USUAL:
We knew this was coming. Best that it happens with Trump as president. https://t.co/s32KQvEsqE
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) December 6, 2025
December 7, 2025
INDEED:
It was suicide by a group of scientist who wanted to be politicians and celebrities.
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) December 8, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.