Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
April 11, 2024
DICTATOR-IN-CHIEF: Biden: ‘Absolutely’ More ‘Executive Action’ Gun Control Measures Coming.
I HAVE SERIOUS DOUBTS THAT THE EPA’S CONTRIBUTION WILL TURN OUT TO BE POSITIVE: Beyond 18-wheelers: How the EPA wants to clean up trucking around the US.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY UNDER THE “IF YOU VOTE REPUBLICAN YOU AIN’T BLACK” ADMINISTRATION: Deaths of despair skyrocket among Black and Native Americans.
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Confessions of a Former Rocket Boy.
THINGS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN OBVIOUS A DECADE AGO: Indiana Court Rejects Claim That Driver’s Licenses Must Include Third Gender Option.
DIE FASTER, PLEASE, DEI: The Daily Chart: DEI is DIE-ing.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! Mayo Clinic argues it has legal right to punish professors for voicing unpopular opinions.
These opinions aren’t even “unpopular,” except among the kinds of people who run institutions like the Mayo Clinic.
INFLATION IS TRANSITORY, OR A MYTH, OR SOMETHING: USPS Proposes Raising Prices of Stamps to 73 Cents.
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Does the US Military Suck With Small Arms?
BIDEN IS SUCKING UP TO HAMAS SUPPORTERS IN MICHIGAN AND MINNESOTA, BUT WHATEVER, SWEETHEART: Marie Harf accuses Trump of antisemitism in heated Fox News interview.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: In his analysis of this year’s law school rankings, David Lat notices something: “UC Law, San Francisco, formerly known as UC Hastings Law, dropped 22 spots in this year’s ranking to #82, after falling nine places in last year’s ranking. So since its board of directors voted to change its name in 2021 (because of Serranus Clinton Hastings’s involvement in the killing and dispossession of Native Americans), the school has dropped by 31 spots. Are respondents to U.S. News reputational surveys confusing UC Law, San Francisco, with the lower-ranked University of San Francisco School of Law (#165)?”
WE SHOULD MAKE “ACTIVISTS” PAY DAMAGES FOR THE GLOBAL C02 EMISSIONS DUE TO KILLING NUCLEAR POWER: Activists Want Energy Companies To Pay Climate Damages. That Could Imperil US National Security, Former Joint Chiefs Say.
The “activists” are never held responsible for the damage caused by their activism.
SO EXPEL THEM AND PROSECUTE THEM: Anti-Israel Agitators Derail Dinner at Home of UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
Related: A Mostly Peaceful Castration: CNN Eulogizes a Terrorist.
When you import and reward antisemitism, you get more of it.
THE NAVY IS HAVING A BAD DECADE: US Navy warship commander mocked for holding rifle with scope mounted backward.
WELL, THAT’S PRETTY MUCH THEIR JOB: Univision Tosses a Softball Interview to Biden as he Panders to Hispanic Voters.
KAKISTOCRACY AT WORK (CONT’D): Trouble At The Fed: Investigation Into Lisa Cook’s Academic Record Raises Questions.
Lisa D. Cook is one of the world’s most powerful economists. She taught economics at Harvard University and Michigan State University and served on the Obama administration’s Council of Economic Advisers before being appointed, in 2022, to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, which controls the interest rates and money supply of the United States.
Despite her pedigree, questions have long persisted about her academic record. Her publication history is remarkably thin for a tenured professor, and her published work largely focuses on race activism rather than on rigorous, quantitative economics. Her nomination to the Fed required Vice President Kamala Harris to cast a tie-breaking vote; by contrast, her predecessor in the seat, Janet Yellen, now Treasury secretary, was confirmed unanimously. . . .
In a series of academic papers spanning more than a decade, Cook appears to have copied language from other scholars without proper quotation and duplicated her own work and that of coauthors in multiple academic journals without proper attribution. Both practices appear to violate Michigan State University’s own written academic standards.
We will review several examples which, taken together, establish a pattern of careless scholarship at best or, at worst, academic misconduct.
This keeps happening. I will note, though, that “plagiarism” comes from the Latin word for “kidnapping,” so one cannot (in my opinion) plagiarize oneself, anymore than one could kidnap oneself. More thoughts from me on plagiarism here.
A NEW LEFTY TALKING POINT IS THAT ELON KILLED TESLA, BUT ACTUALLY THE WHOLE EV INDUSTRY IS IN TROUBLE: Poll: Even More Americans Refuse to Consider EVs.
The truth is, even cool EVs are a niche product. Nothing wrong with a niche product, except that the Biden Administration and the media — but I repeat myself — have sold them as a panacea.
April 10, 2024
THEY CAN’T HELP IT, THEY ALWAYS HAVE TO BLAME AMERICA: Getting the Hiroshima Argument Wrong … Still. “Germany and Japan were bad. They were murderous aggressors that had to be stopped. The worst weapon in history was being chased by a bunch of different combatants in this very morally one-sided war, and using that weapon ended it, with destruction that could not be immediately matched, so humanity had time to be appalled and establish a taboo on further usage.”
There was a time when I doubted the morality of Hiroshima, Tokyo, and Dresden. Watching the world today, I’m glad that our forebears had the courage and moral clarity that too many parts of our contemporary society lack. And it’s funny that the same people who were all “punch a Nazi” a few years ago are now opposed to violence in opposition to, you know, actual Nazi sympathizers.
OPEN THREAD: Enjoy!
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Confessions of a Former Rocket Boy.