Gun lovers may soon have the right to bear bongs www.vox.com/policy/48125...

And it is a very old point (1916 version)

The subtext has become the text

Had an incredibly powerful experience discussing America's concentration camps with the great @andreapitzer.bsky.social. Andrea is America's leading expert in concentration camps and has been an essential voice in response to Trump since his first administration. Discussion starts at 9:00.

It is such an honor for @ssrn.bsky.social to feature my work! Thank you to Apoorva Anand for getting to know my scholarship and for writing this up!

Two of America’s most astute thinkers—Andrea Pitzer and Jamelle Bouie—on our slide into a concentration camp society and how to fight it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

In an earlier era it was called "scoundrel time."

“The greatest nightmare for this administration is [ordinary people] paying attention.”

Here's another

Thrilled that my article with William ("Chip") Carter, An Originalist Critique of Fetal Personhood, is now forthcoming in the Pennsylvania Law Review!!! It was weirdly fun to spend months buried in 19th century dictionaries & Locke's writings. We are still editing but hope to have it online soon!

Take it up with William the Conqueror.

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Louisiana legislator renews eugenic proposal he first pitched more than a dozen years ago: www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/arc...

The 1985 article can be downloaded from ResearchGate for free: N Y Univ Law Rev . 1985 Apr;60(1):30-62.

"on the other hand...."

Donald Trump is racist. His cabinet and vice president are racists. His entire administration and its goals are motivated entirely by white supremacy.

KL: He did it. But it was harmless. White House: It was a mistake. It was an intern. Random observers: He really didn’t see what he posted. Trump: YOURE GOD DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED

My take: it is “simply misleading to suggest that we know that ketogenic diets can improve schizophrenia symptoms, much less that they can ‘cure’ the condition.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

A one-day workshop hosted by the Centre for Medical Humanities (Oxford Brookes University), exploring the history and legacy of eugenics and commemorating Daniel Kevles’ major contribution to the field. 📅 Thursday 19 March 2026

World turned upside down: 1) Jews protesting genocide are "anti-Semites"; 2) U.S. citizens trying to stop ethnic cleansing are "terrorists"; and 3) "The Mismeasure of Man" is "an example of pseudoscience about race and IQ," and (presumably) Murray's "The Bell Curve" isn't.

Think single malt

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u... Follow up article on the person who received the data: www.cleveland.com/news/2026/01...

If you can’t see the links between the people in this photo and ICE kidnapping, torturing, & murdering people, then you really are not paying attention at all. At all. See, for example, this astounding piece by @sarahdigregorio.bsky.social www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

Trump is planning to demolish an invaluable piece of Social Security history.

That is an AMAZING ad. Standing ovation.

This just out in Vanity Fair on vaccines and Trumpian eugenics: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

With commentary from @plombardo2024.bsky.social and myself. Eugenics has come to be a defining feature of the Trump administration...

It could not be more clear.

One anonymous CDC official described the proposed study to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social this way: "This is another Tuskegee." substack.com/home/post/p-...

Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled. Story by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Virginia's legislative session only started yesterday, and it was a very big day. The House already passed four constitutional amendments on Day 1: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. Next: Senate.

Communicating scholarly knowledge beyond the academy is one of the key functions of university faculty. If doing so makes you ineligible for faculty positions, becoming an expert in contentious issues will become even more untenable.

We often think of immigration patterns in terms of the English leaving to establish colonies, but migrants were everywhere in England for centuries!

Its not MAGA, its MEGA (Make Eugenics Great Again) same old arguments about low birth rates among "old American stock" aka "Heritage Americans"

Same

A blistering critique of UVA’s presidential search process that also raises some serious concerns about Beardsley’s resume. That guy has got to go. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

I hadn't realized the teacher was the Chair of the Philosophy Department. Wow. And, at least the Aggies made it to the College Football Playoffs this year. For one game. They'll always have that.... ; )

Many good suggestions here. I always liked Diane Paul’s Controlling Heredity as a short text that summarizes the history of eugenics for non-specialists, but it is of course too long for what you are looking for here.

Allegorical map from 1908 charting the dangerous lands of intoxication, including "Beer Lake" (banked by "Scandal Beach"), "Cocain Park", and "Ft. Bondage", and where to find the "Great Celestial Route": https://publicdomainreview.org/product/gospel-temperance-railroad-map/

Look for this twist as Trump Fund baby rules are released:

or US eugenics in 1914, etc.

The argument that poverty and crime are caused by intellectual deficits and lack of self-control was made regularly by leaders in eugenics like Walter Fernald. This is Fernald in 1912, giving a lecture about "The Burden of Feeble-Mindedness" printed in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.

Just as they also dubbed hookworm “the germ of laziness”

“there is no essential relationship between a symbol and its referent” It was a course in semantics

will look forward to it.

It is a very old lie: see 1913