I mean the state is objectively a fairly recent development in human society

Another reason is that a neutral and forceful application of existing law will produce a huge partisan advantage to Democrats

“The great evils of the world are capitalism and perfidious Jews, which are the same thing”

Neo-Strasserite

Dems won a goddamn senate seat in Alabama in recent memory what is this woman talking about

Like I think it is true that for a Conor Friedersdorf or John Chait getting yelled at on Twitter by an Oberlin sophomore with neo-pronouns is the worst thing that ever happened to them, but that may not be generalizable

That seems more likely than Bill inviting a convicted criminal’s girlfriend with whom he had no apparent connection to his daughter’s wedding for love of the game

I think that Vichy Twitter + the Thiel-chud world has made these people vastly overestimate how chill people are with overt antisemitism!

Tangentially related, are you familiar with the Christopher Lee heavy metal concept album about Charlemagne

Damn that is metal as hell

I mean “you have to put on pants and endure judgmental looks to go to the off-track” seems like a good minimum

The Constitution directly addresses situations where laws ought not apply to constitutional officers (the Speech and Debate Clause), there is no sane interpretive method that results in the document giving the president an unreviewable authority to do public corruption

I sincerely could not tell you either what my “score” was or what the scale was, I passed the goddamn thing and then drank enough to obliterate most memory of it

There are people who did much worse on the LSAT than I did who are objectively much better lawyers and scholars!

I mean the term was essentially invented to make fun of people like Barro, right?