THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX launch adds dozens of satellites to Amazon’s broadband network.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
July 17, 2025
HEY, WHERE DO YOU THINK THE CRUNCH COMES FROM? YoCrunch yogurt recalled after plastic pieces in packaging found. “In packaging found?” Who wrote this, Yoda?
HE DID SAY TO SELL YOUR CLOAK AND BUY A SWORD: ‘Did Jesus pack heat?’: Progressive professor who censored Christian student faces backlash.
MAYBE IT ALWAYS WAS A PARTISAN MACHINE: GOP Bill Will Strip Largest Teachers Union Of Fed Charter: ‘It Has Spiraled Into A Partisan Machine.’ “The NEA has morphed into a mouthpiece for left wing extremism.”
Maybe it always was a mouthpiece for left wing extremism.
WTF IS WRONG WITH GEORGE MASON? George Mason Faculty Members Asked Their President To Denounce Anti-Semitism Like He Did Islamophobia. He Declined, Emails Show.
LOSING ELECTIONS? BAN YOUR OPPOSITION. German Social Democrat Party Scrambling to Get AfD Banned.
Germany needs a bloody popular revolution. And will get one, if this keeps up.
July 16, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
ENDORSED. ALSO ORION NUCLEAR PROPULSION! New study calls for rapid development of space nuclear power systems.
WELL, YOU LEARN BY DOING: NASA’s DART Mission Deflected an Asteroid – But Unleashed a Swarm of Space Boulders.
DELAYING STOMACH EMPTYING WILL DO THAT: GLP-1 drugs increase risk of acid reflux, GERD, study finds.
SELF DRIVING CARS PROGRESS: Lucid, Take the Wheel: Major OTA Update Adds Hands-Free Driving to Air and Gravity.
CRAZY, WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN? Baltimore Rediscovers the Many Benefits of Arresting and Prosecuting Criminals.
ANOTHER ALT-ENERGY BUBBLE DEFLATES: Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development: Fast filling times are seductive, but they don’t compensate for H2’s many drawbacks.
JOEL KOTKIN: Far-Left teachers are indoctrinating children to hate the West. “The NEA is clearly taking political sides, claiming that it is pledging ‘to defend democracy against Trump’s embrace of fascism’. The union is also adamant in defending undocumented immigrants, opposing parental rights, and pledging to back mass demonstrations against the administration. This approach is seen by boosters as ‘social justice unionism’, adding political stances to the usual economic ones.”
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Vaping better at helping smokers quit, study finds.
OUT TOMORROW FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: AMERICAN APOCALYPSE : The Second American Civil War.
TRUST CAN BE LOST MUCH MORE QUICKLY THAN REGAINED: Americans’ trust in Ivy Leagues is tanking: poll. Voters polled say they want universities to get rid of DEI, ‘advance truth over ideology.’
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: A Response to Jack Rakove. “These claims are not correct, and Rakove puts not a shred of evidence forward supporting his positions. . . . Professor Rakove’s blaming on the Supreme Court today’s lack of controlling and persuasive precedent regarding the meaning of the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments and Domestic Emoluments Clauses is, at best, mistaken, and at worst, Orwellian.”
ROGER KIMBALL: The mullahs mean their threats: By and large, the West has grudgingly accommodated Iran’s petulant malevolence.
In the words of Curtis LeMay, if you kill enough of them, the rest stop fighting.
July 15, 2025
OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.