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Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
November 9, 2026
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Dave Chappelle joins the pack of lefty haters with a fetish for political violence.
CALLING OCCUPANTS OF INTERPLANETARY CRAFT: Send your name to Saturn’s moon Titan with NASA’s upcoming Dragonfly mission.
I HAD A POST ON THIS A FEW DAYS AGO BUT IT’S WORTH REPEATING: Scientists Discover Climate Change May Have Stopped Earth’s Next Ice Age.
As I mentioned in other posts, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes’s Fallen Angels takes place in a world where the Greens got their way, carbon emissions were slashed, and an ice age ensued. Naturally the Greens’ response is to double down.
NOT AS FILTHY AS YOU THINK: How dirty and unhygienic were people in the Middle Ages?
“DES MOINES MAN:”
*New media hoax just dropped*
The “Des Moines man” who shot two McDonald’s employees over a wrong order is Hassan Mohamed, a Somali citizen from Kenya
Every time https://t.co/fMAlzi25NC pic.twitter.com/GELdU3gBlw
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 9, 2026
IT’S A NEVER-ENDING STRUGGLE: Reality Check: No Gun Rights Win (or Loss) is Ever Final.
REAPPRAISING COGNITIVE REAPPRAISAL: A Massive Brain-Scan Study Just Complicated a Popular Theory About Emotional Control.
EH, AT LEAST YOU’RE SKINNY. You lost weight on a GLP-1, but are you really healthy?
I DUNNO. THE JOINT VENTURE WITH THE WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY WENT BADLY. Don’t Ban U.S. Biotech Companies From China.
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: Inconvenient Truth: As AR-15 Ownership Exploded, the Number of Murders With Rifles Dropped.
AFTER INVESTIGATING ITSELF: Utah Valley U. largely clears itself in Charlie Kirk ‘after-action report.’
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Sen. Rick Scott: ‘Let’s make the schools accountable’ for preparing American students for jobs.
ALSO INABILITY TO SPEAK IN COMPLETE SENTENCES: Biden says he can’t do as many appearances for his new book as he had hoped due to cancer recovery.
MY LATEST BURGER REVIEW: Kicking it at Mr. Bartley’s.
ZERO TOLERANCE FOR ENEMIES WITHIN: Trump Admin Boots Lebanese Diplomat Over Posts Praising Hezbollah’s 1983 Marine Barracks Suicide Bombing.
ICYMI: AS A FORMER PRESIDENT SAID, GET IN THEIR FACES, SHOUT THEM DOWN, PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Philly ‘Kristallnacht’ protests at Jewish-owned businesses drowned out, shouted down by huge crowds.
November 8, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: ‘I think we will prevail’: NASA chief Jared Isaacman on Artemis, China and the new moon race. We’d better.