i enjoy checking in on a post from the previous day and looking to see how many people lost their minds and immediately began imputing the worst faith motives and assuming the worst possible interpretations

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn

Yay! Sometimes good things happen to good people. law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn

On con law exam day, here is my answer (to a different prompt) A collab with @ryandoerfler.bsky.social based on our draft piece www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and its workings as a diagnostic tool, as an explanans for the explanandum of irrationalism that seems to be taking hold everywhere.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Epic piece

New (forthcoming) piece with @samuelmoyn.bsky.social on how to think about a Court that doesn’t care what you think. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Whoa

At Balkinization, @samuelmoyn.bsky.social considers the radical centrism currently haunting the legal academy.

Whoa

I am an ally of both sides of generational divides, and need large print myself

“The Radical Center in Contemporary Legal Thought” - my latest balkin.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

“The Radical Center in Contemporary Legal Thought” - my latest balkin.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

“I suspect the question the administration cares about is not “is this legal,” “is this a war crime,” “is this murder” or even “is this good for America,” but rather, “isn’t this violence delightful?” Great essay by @philklay.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

Another wonderful piece Hoist on my own petard again www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...

Jan-Werner Mueller: “All post-liberals have at one point or another declared themselves anti-libertarian. Why is it, then, that once in power supposedly post-liberal politicians re-enact Thatcherism and Reaganism, often going much further than those leaders did?” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

If you want a long form philosophical exploration of the current moment, Sam Moyn provides a good one here, despite my interventions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKHE...

Terrific piece www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...

"We must move beyond the obsession with the debate on “fascism”—that opponent whose mere mention seems to guarantee the morality and legitimacy of existing parties and systems—while analyzing historically how we got here." Gosh, I have to think about this. jacobin.com/2025/11/fasc...

Y’all make sure and come by this event today if you’re in New Haven. Going to be a banger. @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ryandoerfler.bsky.social

Before Joe Biden and the Democrats made it unavoidable, the critique of gerontocracy was coopted by neoliberals out to end the "entitlements" state. But what if only expanding the promise of care can allow for transferring of power and wealth away from those who retain them too long?

Wait, maybe Weimar is relevant “Ullrich emphasizes that the Social Democrats didn’t do enough to fundamentally change German society while they could.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

Next Friday: epic. If you’re a Yalie, rsvp! @ryandoerfler.bsky.social @stevevladeck.bsky.social @olatij.bsky.social

Cover reveal

Gerontocrats crashing out www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u... via @nytimes.com

"Conservatism against itself" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

It exists

Wednesday for Yalies… Register and come!

No it's not

TOC, "Gerontocracy in America" (June 2026) us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Seizing the opportunity to reimagine the presidency, after Americans of all stripes built its authority over a century, is critical — which means a plan and promise to make Congress great again,” Samuel Moyn writes.

The imperial presidency wasn’t built in a term - my latest Comment, denounce, retweet! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

The imperial presidency wasn’t built in a term - my latest Comment, denounce, retweet! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

Sigh www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

“Wheatley‬⁩, an Australian-born professor at Princeton University, has a penchant for metaphor and an inventive flair that make her legal histories come alive.” Fantastic kudos from the great ⁦‪Linda Kinstler‬⁩. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

🚨🚨New Pod!! 🚨🚨 We have @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social on the pod!!! @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and I talk with John about his amazing and must read new book, The Radical Fund podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Democrats reckon with how they are implicated - wow newrepublic.com/article/2023...

New book, coming soon! Duncan Bell & Douglas Mao, Utopia (Oxford UP, 2026) It's a short interdisciplinary volume in the recently launched OUP Literature and Politics series. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Apparently there is “a structural weakness of law as a check on the American presidency.” And it took Donald Trump to reveal it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

The Radical Fund is optimistic about cross-camp creativity, but its deeper moral is institutional. Build power with pluralism in mind, or the answer to “who decides” will, all too quickly, become “the powerful.” balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Epic and necessary. We have traveled light years from the premature analyses 2016-17. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

‘The tactical choice to center Trump in advertising in 2025’s closing stretch left party strategists concerned about a missed opportunity to forge a more forward-looking vision. “I worry Trump is like crack cocaine for our party,” said a pollster.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Attend the launch of the great New York Area Legal History Consortium, this time on @JohnFabianWitt’s masterpiece, October 30 at 5:30 p.m. RSVP below. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Excellent with the great Hussein Agha and Rob Malley podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Great piece www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

Twenty years separates these books (12 years as HoD and PVC) both are very different but the need to defend a humane liberal egalitarianism and challenge it’s critics is a urgent as ever @lsegovernment.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social - thanks Jon Cruddas and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social