Connor Ewing

New favorite place to end the week.

Baruck Obama—famously served in the Knesset before running for president

Also: lol

Baruck Obama—famously served in the Knesset before running for president

Flirting with the idea of a project at the intersection of post-liberalism and American political thought. I've read most of the main works by most of the main figures, but what else should I read to understand the different flavours of post-liberalism?

How pathetic and shameful to argue that being "proud of our history" entails defending monuments to ignoble, traitorous, and execrable figures.

a bald man wearing glasses makes a funny face ALT: a bald man wearing glasses makes a funny face

Me, reacting to AR’s usage:

Imagine showing this story to someone in 2008.

Imagine showing this story to someone in 2008.

How pathetic and shameful to argue that being "proud of our history" entails defending monuments to ignoble, traitorous, and execrable figures.

It struggles with deadlines and has crippling self-doubt?

A few important points here:
1. Trump is referring to a new population census, not the ACS. A very important distinction.
2. Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution requires an "actual Enumeration" of "the whole number of persons" every ten years.
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At a certain point, great wealth and power seems to make people awfully craven and dependent.

Suddenly thinking about quorum requirements in state legislatures? Here's a useful piece on the history of quorum politics: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

As is often the case, contemporary American politics is illuminated by its development.

Suddenly thinking about quorum requirements in state legislatures? Here's a useful piece on the history of quorum politics: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The self-foot-shooting will continue until morale improves.

Cool new study: "staffers account for 40% of the differences in the number of bills written between high-performing and low-performing offices" in Congress and "moderate extreme offices within a party"
andrew-kao.github.io/files/Staffe...

Every Act of Executive Overreach is Enabled by Legislative Underreach, Exhibit 9465

Orwell’s 1984: “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.”

Trump’s 2025: “Why should anyone trust numbers?”

To reiterate, as a trained observer of human behavior I’d hazard the opinion that it’s bad for there to be no negative consequences for repeated, barefaced, public lies; and also speculate that it’s bad to subordinate the institutional production of knowledge to the personal vanities of leaders.

Good roundup of the reactions.

Orwell’s 1984: “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.”

Trump’s 2025: “Why should anyone trust numbers?”

The 👏 president 👏 has 👏 neither 👏 statutory 👏 nor 👏 constitutional 👏 authority 👏 to 👏 unilaterally 👏 negotiate 👏 “trade deals”

At this rate, we're going to see Emil Bove nominated to a SCOTUS vacancy by 2028.

Now she’s plagiarizing Imelda Marcos.

UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures” “The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.

We've come to expect headlines like this from directional universities and even state flagships. But this is new, and troubling.

Just put a paragraph of a current manuscript into one of those AI detectors. Welp.

BREAKING: Drug Dealer Bemoans Scourge of Addiction

Collins only shows this much backbone when her vote doesn't matter. So it looks like Bove will be confirmed.