Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

DEAR JIMMY KIMMEL: YOU’RE GARBAGE. YOU’RE NOT FUNNY, AND YOU’RE NOT EVEN A GOOD POLITICAL PROPAGANDIST.

You do a decent job of retailing class-snobbery for downwardly mobiles, though, which is what most of your audience is actually there for.

#WINNING: Senate approves deal to end DHS shutdown without Democratic immigration demands. “The last-ditch deal does not include any of the demands Democrats have placed on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — including that agents be barred from wearing masks and operate under tougher warrant requirements to detain illegal migrants. The bill does not provide funding for ICE or Border Patrol, but those subagencies already received billions of dollars under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law by President Trump this past July and immigration enforcement has gone on uninterrupted by the shutdown.”

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.

FLASHBACK: RANDY BARNETT ON LIBERTARIANISM’S FAILURES:

I see five distinct ways that libertarian theory needs to up its game.

First, the need for natural law ethics in addition to natural rights; second, the need to distinguish between libertarian ideal theory and second-best libertarianism in a world of governments and competing nations; third, the need for a libertarian theory of citizenship and civil rights; fourth, the need to separate the public-private binary from the government-nongovernment binary; and fifth, the need for a more refined theory of corporate power and corporate rights.

Let me offer a few words about each.

Read the whole thing.

NUKE THE FILIBUSTER, PASS A BUDGET AND THE SAVE ACT: