It is difficult to get people to focus on the illegitimacy of the Court.

Today I want to talk about something less high-minded.

Screaming "illegal" at people as an excuse to do untold horrors to them is a way of voiding lawfulness itself.

...our notions of being Texan, the various ideas we have about who we are and what the state means, shape the politics of the state.

In this age of unchecked hubris, "We the People" suffers not only from neglect but apostasy.

...I mean bullshit in the technical, Harry Frankfurt sense. It is not merely lies we can disprove. It aims to distract, to overwhelm, to delegitimize.

The key statistic you need about cops is this: cops solve 2% of all major crimes.

The freedom to hurt others is not true freedom.

American history is full of remarkable documents, ones with a sacred aura compelling reverence from readers.

In order to love your neighbor, you have to know you have neighbors.

Federalism is an old solution to a perennial problem.

To be sure, what I've linked to below is financial journalism. A lot of that is by definition obscene.

What AI allows is the cult around the President to imagine anything they want and instantly create media which looks legitimate enough.

This is how we have destroyed the world, with an absolute right to "takes."

I've got notebooks filled with scribbles I barely understand, bookmarks on pages I vaguely remember.

Everything is so ugly nowadays, even as the ugliest scenes are somewhat concealed.

Imani Perry's "Art Is a Powerful Tool to Fight Racial Injustice" compels us to clarify our urge to "do something."

We don't really need to respect the arguments of people who only want to say racist stuff about their neighbors.

As of this moment, he's essentially the President.

If you saw a leader of another country have a massive military parade on their birthday, what would you think about that country?