Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

KAROL MARKOWICZ: I have spent the last year angry at Jews. What if Jews don’t wake up?

Note this comment from Jeffrey Carter, to this weekend’s “Schrodinger’s Election” essay: “I have a lot of 70s something men in my country club, many of them Jewish. They are voting Kamala. The 1960s/70s haven’t left their souls yet. The men in their 60s and lower, voting Trump. It’s an interesting divide.”

SO SOMEBODY’S HAVING FUN IN THIS ELECTION, AND IT’S NOT KAMALA:

WELL, YOU KNOW, THEY LITERALLY DID. MORE THAN ONCE.

I remember when Joe Walsh wasn’t a lying moron. Or, at least, he wasn’t making it obvious.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

EVERYTHING IS GOING, ER, SWIMMINGLY: The E.V. Flameout.

WELL, YES: Culture Drift Predicts Decadence. “We now push less for conformity to traditional norms, and more tolerate and even celebrate defiance of many pro-coordination norms, such as anti-crime and pro-work-org norms. We work less, are more promiscuous, and consume more entertainment. We invest less in fertility, and more in education, which is at our margins a poor investment. We less promote and more hinder innovation. We are less ready to die in war for our community. And we are in less awe of religion and other sacred things larger than ourselves.”

The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter will return.

WESTERN POLICYMAKERS WILL IGNORE THIS. Because if they took Iran’s leadership seriously, the correct approach would be brutal and obvious, and they hate that.