The Judgment of the Masses Chomsky was incapable of glimpsing anything but media brainwashing stirring up the irrationality of the masses against his friend. In “the public domain,” Chomsky told Epstein, “innuendo and suspicion...

For our new issue, I wrote about Chomsky's friendship with Epstein and the political risks of his thinking on propaganda www.thedriftmag.com/the-judgment...

"Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us."

Me holding a copy of a book that I wrote with Daphna Renan! Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People

Look what just arrived!! Advance proofs of a real book!! One that actual bookstores are preordering!!!

wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Feels like a different moment. Continuity but also rupture.

The Strokes - New York City Cops - Live from Bernie Sanders New Hampshire Rally (10 Feb 2020) YouTube video by Soundtrack for a Revolution

Also reminded me of one of my last moments of unburdened political optimism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzEJ...

Self-serving, but millennial socialism was good.

the unions used to literally bus people out to the symphony every week

This is just not true! Some of it is Warren Burger’s fault! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Who Needs Netflix? Just get a DVD Player and a Library Card.

True and recession indicator.

Feels important to uplift Rep Pressley's leadership. She puts in a lot of work on issues that others often don't see as a priority. I've appreciated her anti-criminalization work over the years. She's a worker.

Thank you Senator Chris Van Hollen for sharing US citizen Rachel Corrie’s story from the Senate floor and voting to block the destructive bulldozers that Israeli soldiers used to kill her.

A serious and thoughtful critique from a scholar I admire of a scholar I admire. Well worth your time to read!

The backlash has arrived

A New York Times podcast headline, which reads: OPINION INTERESTING TIMES How the Supreme Court Defeated Trump A conservative court watcher explains why the president has failed to bend the judicial branch to his will. April 16, 2026, 5:05 a.m. ET

Not this take again. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/o...

Fun fact: Harvard’s founding predates the state of Massachusetts so its charter is actually incorporated into the Massachusetts state constitution. So there’s a decent legal argument that Massachusetts could reform or revolutionize Harvard’s governance through amending its own state constitution.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as threat to America He said that the values enshrined in the 1776 Declaration of Independence have “fallen out of favor” among Americans.

Genuinely funny that Sonia Sotomayor issued a public apology today for her mild criticism of a conservative colleague on a specific, substantive issue, and then a few hours later Clarence Thomas picked up a mic and was like ALL LIBERALS ARE AMERICA-HATING COWARDS

Between this and Sotomayor's recent dig at Kavanaugh, I'm getting the sense that Callais (the Voting Rights Act case) will be an absolute disaster and the liberals have given up trying to mitigate the damage.

So imagine if we (the profession, starting with law schools) stopped collectively fetishizing this experience? I really enjoyed clerking, and still encourage skeptical but great students to apply - *and* I think this is something that needs to be brought down to earth

Rude.

Castration Movie chapter iii

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