Category Archives: Law
The Supposed Benefits Of “Diversity”
It was never about improving education.
Slapping Down The Censors
A court has ruled that plaintiffs are likely to win a suit against the administration, and granted an injunction against its communicating with social media companies.
[Update a while later]
Thoughts from Don Surber.
Due Process On Campus
A major ruling against Yale that could restore sanity to other institutions.
The Affirmative-Action Decision
Thoughts from Gail Heriot and Glenn Reynolds. And some reactions from Manhattan Institute scholars.
[Update a while later]
Clarence Thomas versus affirmative-action hire Ketanji Brown Jackson.
[Friday-morning update]
Jackson’s dissent is an argument for institutional racism. And she wasn’t happy with Thomas.
[Late-morning update]
Sorry, link is fixed on the institutional-racism thing.
The Rot At The Department Of Justice
…goes much deeper than Merrick Garland.
Though, as noted there, that doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t be impeached. He clearly lied to Congress.
[Update a few minutes later]
The NYT confirms the story, though it buries it deep.
Who Let The Dogs Out?
CBS is going after Hunter and Garland. Is the dam about to break?
The Human Suffering In Our Cities
…is a symptom of deep cultural rot.
Ramaswamy is a pretty articulate guy.
A Catastrophic Implosion
…of the rule of law.
The Titanic Submersible
It has ties to space exploration.
There are a lot of parallels with space tourism here. It is a high-risk, high-cost activity for wealthy individuals, that is currently unregulated. It is a visit to a harsh environment (worse than space in some ways), where life support is required, and finite. I hope that this incident doesn’t result in clamoring for regulation, of either submersibles, or space adventures. In the case of the submersible, it’s not clear who would regulate something that’s taking place in international waters.
[Update a few minutes later]
[Noon update]
One of the people on the boat is an adventure addict.
Well, that’s the sort of people who do this sort of thing.
[Wednesday-morning update]
It’s looking more and more like this was negligence, and the people who did it were daredevils.
And then there’s this.
[Bumped]
[Noon update]
The company was warned twice of potentially catastrophic consequences. It will be ironic if Rush is killed by his own decision, but it shows his misplaced confidence in it.
[Thursday-afternoon update]
“They likely didn’t know what hit them.”
[Bumped]
[Update a while later]
Thoughts from James Cameron: