Both, actually. At the age of 10, in 1978, Mr. Volokh took the Math “Aptitude” SAT and scored 780 out of 800. He graduated from UCLA at 15, later graduated from UCLA Law, and now teaches there, and also runs the estimable, largely libertarian “Volokh Conspiracy” website. Here is what someone who is quite reasonably…
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Some “conservatives” are whistling past the graveyard of American democracy; others are busy swinging a shovel
I like to keep track of what the “responsible right”, as I like to call them, is up to, a task that I perform by rounding up the usual suspects—Ross Douthat, Jay Nordlinger, Kevin Williamson, Ramesh Ponnuru, David French, and Jonah Goldberg, among others—finding most of them at either the National Review or the American…
Ramesh Ponnuru sincerely wishes that Donald Trump would stop farting so loudly. Particularly when he’s sitting on Mr. Ponnuru’s face
Well, he does. In a recent post, “Trump’s Record on Clemency”, written before the president’s most recent (to date) rogue’s gallery of releases, Mr. Ponnuru acknowledges that, well, the president can do anything he goddamn pleases when it comes to pardons, including pardoning a bunch of murders and corrupt political pals whenever the mood strikes…
The “Solar Winds” Fraud: Special Hot Air Edition
It’s an ill wind that blows no good, and the latest fake news regarding “Solar Winds”, the Russian super hack that wasn’t, is a good example. It’s just coincidence, I’m sure, that a sudden leak regarding Russian perfidy should emerge just as Joe Biden was taking office. The odds were already roughly 1,000,000,000,000,000 to 1…
Is Donald Trump making some Republicans “smarter”? Well, if by “some” you mean “two or three”, you may be on to something!
Okay, I don’t want to go out on a limb here, but I do detect a few signs of intelligence on the “right”, largely prompted by disgust over Trump’s hysterical reaction to his defeat and, even more, his clear willingness to overturn the results of the election by having state legislatures appoint their own electors…
Yes, Donald Trump is destroying American democracy and the Republican Party is helping. Surprised? You shouldn’t be.
Only eight years ago—how time flies!—Republicans were actually embarrassed by the fact that since 1988 their nominee for president had won more votes than his opponent only once, compared to five second-place finishes. Now if you ask a Republican “strategist” about the fact that it’s now one out of eight, he’ll explain to you genially…
Today the Struggle Begins
The odds for a Biden victory do not look good. Possibly the Democrats will win the Senate. Probably they gain strength in the House. Our long national nightmare just got longer. Obviously, we cannot surrender to Trumpism. We have to endure, so that, eventually, when the emotions that brought Trump to power exhaust themselves, the…
Good news! (Sort of) Other countries have been even more f*cked up than we are!
Big consolation, n’est-ce pas? Well, at this time of the “Big Wait”, when I am pathetically hoping for a Biden blow-out and even more pathetically trying not to think, really, not to think about anything at all, it is “nice” to think that other nations have, at other times in their history, endured internal distress,…
Donald Trump must really be in trouble, because Ben Sasse is kicking him
You know a pimp is hurtin’ when his whores start to turn. Anyone who reads this blog—all three of you—know that I’m, well, basically terrified of thinking that Uncle Joe Biden has it in the bag, despite what the polls say. But here’s a real sign that Donnie’s ship is sinking: Nebraska Sen. Ben “Sassy…
Back to “Normal” in 21? We should be so lucky.
There’s been a meme floating around for the past several years, pushed perhaps most assiduously by the New York Times’s Ross Douthat, and given another shove in his recent column “There Will Be No Trump Coup”, picturing that man in the White House as a “noisy weakling, not a budding autocrat”, an embarrassment rather than…