Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

GO FIGURE:

GEORGE WAS A YEAR BEHIND ME IN LAW SCHOOL AND CONTINUES TO PLAY TO TYPE:

AMERICA IS THE ANTITHESIS OF LEFTISM, SO LEFTISM MUST ALWAYS END IN HATING AMERICA:

CLASS: Brits visiting US for first time during World Cup are apologizing to Americans: ‘We were wrong’. I think — and I believe I first heard this from John Ringo’s wife Miriam, who’s super-smart — that the difference between the attitudes toward flyover America from the World Cup crowd and from the European laptop class is class. The soccer fans aren’t as posh as the ones who come for the Olympics, and they are seeing parts of America that are — like them — middle- and working-class and they’re thinking that wow, it’s a lot better to be middle- and working-class in America than in Britain or Europe. Whereas for the laptop class, not so much.

OPEN THREAD: It’s perfection and grace. It’s the smile on my face.

DEPOPULATION: The World’s Biggest Population Fear Has Flipped – and It Could Change Everything. “Since the 1960s, public debate has often focused on the dangers of overpopulation. Those concerns have not disappeared, especially in discussions linked to immigration, but attention has increasingly turned toward shrinking populations and the economic and national security challenges they may bring.”