Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

YES, ZIONISM IS A RESISTANCE MOVEMENT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AGAINST SETTLER COLONIALIST OPPRESSORS:

REMINDER:

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

IF IT WEREN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL:

ROLLING BACK THE ESTABLISHMENT EVERYWHERE: How One Family Aims to Break Liberals’ Corporate Voting Power. “Roughly 400 miles from Wall Street in a small town in Pennsylvania’s Rust Belt, Jerry Bowyer, his wife and five of their children have been working around a dining room table, sifting through corporate data on hot-button issues such as abortion, DEI and climate change. Their goal: Shift more power to conservative investors at company annual meetings. And, with the 2025 proxy season kicking into gear this month, there are signs that the Bowyers are winning some converts. . . . What’s at stake may seem nerdy and arcane, but it’s nonetheless important in helping set corporate priorities. US securities law requires publicly traded companies to have an annual meeting to allow shareholders to pass muster on their business. Thousands of fund managers cast billions of votes on behalf of millions of investors on issues ranging from what executives get paid to resolutions that seek additional environmental and societal-related disclosures. Conservative-leaning groups like the Bowyer’s want to match the sway that progressives have historically had. Currently, resolutions opposing diversity, equity and inclusion programs struggle to attract more than 2% support from shareholders.”

ELON WINS HIS FIRST ELECTION:

METAPHOR ALERT:

WELL, THEY PROVIDED LOTS OF REASONS TO DISTRUST THE AUTHORITIES AND THE MEDIA: Alex Berenson: Did Covid lockdowns and school closures swing young people sharply right? Two new polls offer powerful evidence the answer is yes.

“Childhood is achingly brief, and they stole time from these kids, and they stole experiences.”

They — the Donald Trump-hating Democratic blob that includes the public health establishment, teachers’ unions, academia, and the media — sure did.

And for evil, self-interested reasons that have become very obvious.

RAZIB KHAN: Homo with a side of sapiens: the brainy silent partner we co-opted 300,000 years ago. “A plain reading of this result is that modern humans are a synthetic population, and our functions and features are a melange. Most of our biological processes derive from the same lineage that gave rise to Neanderthals and Denisovans. But, a minority of our heritage is a holdover from some very different and alien population that was notably distinct from the Eurasian hominins likely demographically dominant within Africa (population A). That exotic population, labeled B here, seems to have bequeathed our lineage much more of its cognitive function, and perhaps crucially earned us our self-chosen sobriquet Homo sapiens.”

IT’S DESCRIPTIVE:

DEMOCRATS SEE “HISPANICS” AS A UNIFORM WHOLE MOTIVATED ENTIRELY BY RACIAL GRIEVANCE:

OPEN THREAD: Party on.