Very insightful post. hegemon.substack.com/p/the-easy-p...

My interview with Professor @donaldcclarke.bsky.social , expert on modern Chinese law, of GWU Law School, on Eileen Gu's dual citizenship issue and what this says about China's rule of law 我采访美国乔治华盛顿大学法学院教授，中国法律研究专家，唐纳德克拉克，讨论谷爱凌的双重国籍问题，中国国籍法，以及由此揭示的中国法治状况 youtu.be/HneI5gamG-4?...

Make of this what you will.

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

Masterful Troll, TCM.

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

big this energy

China-related jobs! careerchina.substack.com/p/career-chi...

Imagine! People were trying to claw their way out of a faculty meeting 67,800 years ago! #Satire www.pbs.org/newshour/art...

Stupid, unethical, and lazy lawyers misusing AI again. Will this never end? These sanctions are merely compensatory; something punitive is needed. reason.com/volokh/2026/...

Generous fellowship for advanced Chinese language study available for GWU grad students: gradfellowships.gwu.edu/gitter-fello...

Really important paper, 🧵, & results. No one, including me, has good solutions for this, but it's a huge problem for social science that we all know & expect that ~every paper with a null finding as the main result goes in the file drawer.

Great idea for a law (or anything) class, and nice to know it actually works. reason.com/volokh/2026/...

the first choice is literally what Jesus would teach, i feel like i'm losing my mind

reason.com/volokh/2026/... Compellingly reasoned opinion here.

My latest on the newest development in the Schellenberg case: open.substack.com/pub/donaldcl...

More AI follies by lawyers. The misconduct in this case is just mind-boggling. reason.com/volokh/2026/...

Wow. Chinese report of Starmer visit has Xi calling him 你 while Starmer calls Xi 您. Will anyone explain to Starmer how insulting this is?

In these troubled times, take a few moments to enjoy this heart-warming story of Sino-American cooperation.

Great resource for young (or maybe not so young) China professionals, from Savannah Billman: careerchina.substack.com/p/china-youn...

reason.com/volokh/2026/... Unpacking Vance's preposterous claim of "absolute immunity".

It’s so funny how this happens no matter how many times Musk tries to fix it.

Unless you are stabbing them with a flagpole to stop the steal, obviously.

Trump and other politicians are wrong to try to bar large investors from the housing market. That will only make housing shortages worse. The right approach is to break down exclusionary zoning and other regulatory restrictions on building: reason.com/volokh/2026/...

"If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter."

Very proud of my daughter!

Newsnight, The Moral Maze, and How The Light Gets In all invited this guy on as a public intellectual. Why is gatekeeping and its enforcement of basic intellectual and ethical standards so fundamentally broken? Such signals and norms matter.

lol Schumer's response is literally to say this is a distraction from grocery prices. Beyond parody man.

“Wordcel”

Horrendous policy change. For taxes *and* elections.

Denied a jury trial, Jimmy Lai declared guilty by three handpicked judges in Hong Kong. api.neonemails.com/emails/conte...

But David French, the guys flipping out over Drag Queen Story Hour are the weak men creating hard times. If they think something has gone terribly wrong, and that the thing is people reading books to kids at a voluntary family event, that's insanely weak. And an excuse to act on irrational hatred.

If you're wondering what happened to Nate Silver, he was into the COVID lab leak theory and got negative feedback online, including from epidemiologists and virologists and (GASP!) posters, which added to his belief that The Woke are victimizing Nate Silver. It spiraled from there. I'm not kidding.

I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more transparently corrupt government and I'm from India

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

These agencies' budgets are WAAAYYYY too big. Eight people + 1 filming to remove a paper sign? Imagine if we staffed Head Start classrooms, VA hospitals, or nursing homes like that. bsky.app/profile/notu...

What does “basic competency” even mean? How about requiring basic competency in math or reading comprehension or writing? 🙄

WTAF

Great thread

Here is Congressman Randy Fine explicitly calling for the genocide of Muslims. This is abhorrent. We are disgusted by Congressman Fine's persistent and rampant anti-Muslim racism and call on all American Jewish leaders to speak out.

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.