Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
August 9, 2025
I’VE BEEN IN SOME BANDS, WE DO NOT WANT ROBOTS THAT ACT LIKE DRUMMERS: Robotic drummer gradually acquires human-like behaviors.
R.I.P.: Astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, dies at 97. I remember doing a panel with him at a Congressional Space Caucus session that revolved around the Delta Clipper. Somewhere I have a copy of Jeffrey Kluger & Lovell’s Lost Moon that he autographed.
THAT’S BECAUSE IT’S BIGOTED AND VICIOUS: ‘Whitelash’: Professors say white students get angry, frustrated by ‘anti-racist education.’
THE LEFT’S INSTINCT TOWARD OSTRACISM IS PART AND PARCEL OF ITS “MEAN GIRLS” APPROACH TO POLITICS:
…Dershowitz is entirely in the right here, and the treatment that he received was outrageous and wrong. What is chilling is how hate is now celebrated on the left as a perverse type of virtue signaling.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) August 9, 2025
TRUST THE “EXPERTS.” FOLLOW THE “SCIENCE.”
Boaler’s co-faulty member in the Stanford Education dept is credited with the “research” that minority students can only learn from teachers who share their skin color/ identity.
Through layers of idea laundering, it is now considered “best practice,” and many many K-12 school…
— Rhyen Staley (@RhyenStaley) August 9, 2025
Flashback: Team Biden’s plan to ‘ensure scientific integrity’ should start with itself.
MAY THE DEMOCRATS ENJOY MORE SUCH MASTERMINDS IN THE FUTURE: Harvard Hails Two-Time Loser Stacey Abrams as ‘Political Mastermind:’ Abrams said her failed 2018 campaign against Brian Kemp was ‘rigged’ and ‘stolen’ I’m so old I can remember when calling elections “rigged” and “stolen” was a crime against democracy.
IT WOULD BE FUNNIER IF IT WEREN’T TRUE:
THEY WANTED TO BE A GREAT POWER ON THE CHEAP, AND THAT NEVER WORKS: Europe’s “Great Power” Dream is in Tatters: Don’t fear the “rising European superpower”. It never was, and never will be.
Rather than fearing the rising European superpower, I’m plotting out a thriller about seizing or destroying the French and British nukes as Islamists take power.
August 8, 2025
THEY TOLD US HE WAS GOING TO BE A WARMONGER, WHOSE LOOSE-CANNON DIPLOMACY WOULD PRODUCE CHAOS:
An astonishing achievement. The diplomacy coming out of this administration is just tremendous, and President Trump's haters—which include the vast majority of the mainstream media whose job it is to cover this stuff—won't give him an ounce of credit for it. https://t.co/FBgJQCDyvS
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) August 8, 2025
If they gave Obama a Nobel Peace Prize for no reason, they should probably give President Trump one for ending seven conflicts in less than seven months with more to come
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 8, 2025
In less than seven months in office, President Trump has now brokered peace between:
🇹🇭🇰🇭 Thailand and Cambodia
🇮🇱🇮🇷 Israel and Iran
🇷🇼🇨🇩 Rwanda and the DRC
🇮🇳🇵🇰 India and Pakistan
🇷🇸🇽🇰 Serbia and Kosovo
🇪🇬🇪🇹 Egypt and Ethiopia
🇦🇲🇦🇿 Armenia and Azerbaijan— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) August 8, 2025
YOU’LL SEE A LOT MORE OF THIS, WHICH WILL TURN TO OUTRIGHT REBELLION OF THE GOVERNMENT DOESN’T CLEAN UP ITS ACT:
🚨BREAKING: Thousands of British citizens have taken control of Norwich streets outside a hotel housing illegal migrants, blocking the entire road in a massive show of force.
The revolution has officially begun. pic.twitter.com/wcCN2mGa9Y
— The British Patriot (@TheBritLad) August 8, 2025
UM, EVERYTHING? Hey, experts — admit what you got so wrong on Trump’s tariffs.
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China completes landing and takeoff test for crewed moon lander.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE: Europa’s Bizarre Hotspot: Scientists May Have Solved a Long-Standing Space Mystery.
ANOTHER FAILURE FOR OUR EXPERT CLASS:
I spent a bunch of time today reading recent economics papers on tariffs. Every single one assumes retaliatory tariffs. None—not a single one—correctly models what happened, which is a big hike by the U.S. in exchange for lower tariffs and non-tariff barriers.
Academic…
— John Carney (@carney) August 7, 2025
Related: The Suicide of Expertise.
THE QUESTION ON EVERYONE’S LIPS: Could GPL-1 weight loss soon come in pill form? What we know.
PERHAPS AN UNFORTUNATE TURN OF PHRASE: Why Hydrogen-Powered Cars Have Yet to Blow Up.