Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM:

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CDR SALAMANDER: Requiem for a Frigate: It Didn’t Have To Be Like This. “Of all the disastrous series of failures this century to build a surface combatant, none were as unnecessary and avoidable as the failure of the Constellation Class FFG.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Bachelor’s Degrees Aren’t Cool Anymore. “In a new research brief, The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Education found that only 44 percent of American high school students expected to earn a bachelor’s degree in 2022, down from 72 percent in 2002. The study also revealed a parental gap among high school students, with only 33 percent of first-generation students aspiring to a bachelor’s degree in 2022, compared to 60 percent two decades earlier. . . . Pundits typically cite ideological bias, social disaffection, rising costs, credential inflation, and poor labor market returns. Each contributes something, but none has been quite as ignored as this: the internet has effectively dismantled the cultural bottlenecks that historically upheld the fiat value of a college education.”

Matt Damon’s character in Good Will Hunting summarized the problem: “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”

Related demographic irony:

HE’S RIGHT. IT IS BAFFLING.

SO THE SPLC WAS BASICALLY JUST A TERRORIST FRONT GROUP THEN? SPLC boss funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group — pair even had joint bank account.

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What if — hear me out — we’ve had it backwards? What if the Nazis secretly set up the SPLC as a funding channel? Just sayin’.

WELL, GOOD: FBI arrests 5 people in connection with drone attack plot against White House UFC Freedom 250 event. “The multi-phase terror attack allegedly involved using explosive-laden drone aircraft to strike buildings in the vicinity of the event, sparking mass panic and driving the fleeing crowd toward a sniper team poised to pick them off, officials told Fox News Digital. A ‘second wave’ of attackers then allegedly planned to storm the White House gate, officials said.”

MEHDI HASAN WOULD BE LAUGHABLE IF HE WEREN’T SO EVIL:

THANK YOU, PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY MAKE THE WORLD BETTER:

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: A Majority of Law Professors Say Legal Education Is Heading in the Wrong Direction.. “Conservative law faculty experience a sharply different climate than their liberal colleagues: 61% of conservative faculty say their law school is hostile toward people with their political beliefs, compared to 11% of liberal faculty, and three times as many hide their political beliefs to keep their job (52% versus 17%).”

HE’S NOT WRONG:

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

YES.

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