This is where the NYT’s engagement farming was always going to bring us.

I haven't even seen One Battle After Another yet but I do love how happy @thehighsign.bsky.social sounds talking about it on The Slate Culture Gabfest.

I can

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

Who's up for an intellectual feast?

I, for one, am looking forward to subscribing to the independent publications The New New Yorker, Vanity Fairest, and HotWired.

Lest anyone think this is a new obsession on the right, see Leon Kass's views (from 1994!) on licking ice cream cones.

So cyberpunk.

It’s like if “The Red Wheelbarrow” ended with a plea to respect private property.

Sometimes there’s a kindred spirit in the comments.

As I was saying.

Shorter David Brooks

So was the icon for "Houthis PC Small Group" a Roman bust or an AI-generated image of a Mitteleuropan palace?

I want to see the Hallmark movie about the Big City Woman who moves back to the Virtuous Northeastern Coastal Town but who can't actually get together with the Plaid-Wearing Blue Collar Man of her Unlikely Dreams because of tariffs/Medicaid cuts/a shortfall in aggregate demand.

Wonkbloggers: It's too hard for even millionaires to find good housing and decent child care in Noe Valley. We need liberals to deregulate. NatCons: After the deportations, every white family will be able to move into the houses vacated by immigrants and their kids can go to "nice schools".

Proud to have started my career at @kekerllp.bsky.social

The thing to remember is that there is a subset of people who love the Trump Years because it gives them an excuse to frequently quote the only line from Thucydides that they've ever read.

When you don't want to think about the consequences of the "ideas" that you laundered out of petrodollars. #AEIwisdom

I will take Tyler Cowen’s thoughts on AI seriously when he thinks it’s capable of running a planned economy.

Somebody made Fetch happen.

That feeling when your long, "Straussian" ride on the alt-right tiger has left you in uncomfortable company.

Without taking a position on the merits of Senate term limits, not having them means that you too few opportunities for new senators to discover the joys of Senate procedure.

Isn't the national debt our sovereign wealth fund?

The Unitary Executive Theory was a wolf that came as a wolf.

When @scottshuchart.bsky.social asks a question like this, it's worth paying attention.

Case in point. Don't click on it.

It will be very funny if the endpoint of the "unitary executive" detour in constitutional law is to land back at the pre-Federalist Society understanding of Article II.

You get the court philosopher you deserve, I guess?

Seriously, how much is AEI paying @theatlantic.com to launder billionaire ideology for its professional-managerial readership?

The Douthat Rosetta Stone: “We do, however, hear—and at great length—about how Douthat failed to get into the ‘final club’ of his choice… and how a certain campus starlet… refused to acknowledge his existence.”

Hello, I'd like to report a founding murder.

Like God Emperor of Dune, as written by Brian Herbert.

Negative polarization > enthusiasm is to politics what r > g is to economics.

This is straight out of Neal Stephenson’s Fall, or Dodge in Hell.

And the funny thing is, by backing Trump, the Winkelvoss twins finally got Facebook.

Does Cannon's order keep the Attorney General from releasing, say, a summary of the Special Counsel's Report?

"The true unitary executive will unite the country."

Thanks, Taylor Sheridan.

This, by the way, is the whole point of Tyler Cowen's blog--to lob new data, however poorly sourced or irrelevant, into the discussion until you throw your hands up in defeat and say "Hayek was right, only the wisdom of supply and demand can give us an answer".

Tyler Cowen, after the Financial Crisis, made a turn towards cultural criticism--just like most Marxist/Marxian academics in the humanities did after the end of the Cold War--because it's easier to practice the exegesis of vibes rather than interrogate your own intellectual sunk costs.

See generally, Michael J. Klarman, The Supreme Court, 2019 Term -- Foreword: The Degradation of American Democracy -- and the Court, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (2020).

The Article II argument makes sense if you think of the One True Executive as being unitary across all time and space.

You can’t read the comments without it becoming painfully clear that Tyler Cowen is not a Serious Intellectual, but the Koch’s’ Apostle to the Caliper-Owning Incels.

In which Tyler Cowen calls out one of his patrons for being insufficiently “Straussian”.

"The real divide is between the people who climb two (or three mountains) and those who pay to climb many hills."

100 times this.

These people are hermit crabs, inhabiting the hollowed out shells of (relative) giants.

I do think it would be fun to teach a class on "The Law of Trump," covering all of the ways in which the Constitution bent during his presidency and post-presidency.