Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

September 14, 2025

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: On Reconciliation. “It is said that at the negotiations at Appomattox Courthouse Lee and Grant were both frank and civil during the course of discussing the surrender of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Afterwards, Grant sent food to Lee to feed his (and, then, their) nation’s former enemy soldiers. Celebrations for Grant’s soldiers came only later not while Lee’s soldiers remained present. Again, in ending active hostilities, the first step towards national reconciliation was frank and civil discourse. I do not think our present and future is or will be as difficult as was Grant and Lee’s. But we too have to think about national reconciliation.”

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 14th, 2025

JONATHAN TURLEY: ‘Prove me wrong’ — Charlie Kirk and the age of rage.

Charlie was brave, and he was brash. He refused to yield to the threats while encouraging others to speak out on our campuses.

He was particularly hated for holding a mirror to the face of higher education, exposing the hate and hypocrisy on our campuses. For decades, faculty have purged their ranks of conservatives and libertarians. Faced with the intolerance of most schools, polls show that a large percentage of students hide their values to avoid retaliation from faculty or their fellow students.Charlie chose to change all that. TPUSA challenges people to engage and debate them. The response from some on the left has been to trash their tables and threaten the students. Recently, at UC Davis, police stood by and watched as a TPUSA tent was torn apart. . . .

Charlie was hated because he exposed the left’s intolerance of opposing views … all in the purported cause of achieving greater tolerance. By challenging others to debate, he triggered a generation of speech-phobics who are more interested in silencing others than speaking on their own account.

Charlie was hated for stripping away the pretense and self-delusion of those canceling, blacklisting, and attacking others for holding opposing views. He did so by standing in harm’s way.

The conservatives that Kirk coaxed out of the shadows can honor his memory by showing that they will not be silenced. They can step forward and renew his same challenge: “Prove me wrong.”

Yes.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 14th, 2025

September 13, 2025

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 13th, 2025

“IF YOU STRIKE ME DOWN” . . .

Posted at 8:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 13th, 2025

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: When the Preference Cascade Becomes a Flood: Everything is becoming clear.

UPDATE:

Posted at 6:37 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 13th, 2025

YEP.

Posted at 6:20 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 13th, 2025

SOLID ADVICE:

Posted at 4:19 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 13th, 2025

THE LEFT’S BIGGEST FEAR IS THAT THE NORMALS WILL START TO STAND UP FOR THEMSELVES. That’s why they hate Kyle Rittenhouse, and that’s why they killed Charlie Kirk.

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Posted at 8:57 am by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 13th, 2025

NAILED IT:

Posted at 8:42 am by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 13th, 2025

MEANWHILE, IN LONDON:

“Far-right” is hate speech. As we’ve seen with Charlie Kirk, it’s a dog-whistle for leftist violence.

Posted at 8:32 am by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 13th, 2025

EUGENE VOLOKH ON Firing Public Employees Who Publicly Praise Violent Criminal Attacks. “There is no categorical exception even as to government employment for speech that praises violence.”

Related: Is It Cancel Culture to Go After the Charlie Kirk Assassination Celebrators?

Flashback: Hair Pulling Time.

There’s an old joke about a boy who complains to his mother that his little sister keeps pulling his hair.

“Oh,” responds the mother, “she doesn’t know that it hurts.”

A few minutes later, the mother hears the girl scream and runs into the other room. “She knows now,” the boy explains.

There’s a lesson for Republicans in that old joke, if they’re smart enough to absorb it.

I have doubts about these firings, but no doubts about the importance of the lessons being driven home. The courts can sort it out later, just like they did (sometimes) when so many people on the right were being cancelled. In the meantime, the leftist culture of impunity — where they can’t even imagine paying a price for their behavior because they feel insulated by their politics — is taking a much-needed hit.

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As science shows, tit-for-tat is a highly effective strategy.

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 13th, 2025

YEP:

Posted at 8:22 am by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 13th, 2025
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