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19 Apr 2018, 12:45 pm
The Gorsuch story reminded me of a law professor friend of mine noting, a few years ago, that pressure for ideological conformity often comes through the threat of disdain: Go along with liberal positions on these various issues, or feel your colleagues' contempt and hostility. [read post]
5 Jan 2018, 12:07 am
Happy new year, and hope you're enjoying our new home here at Reason! [read post]
10 Jul 2018, 7:29 am
I'm slammed with other projects this week, but I just wanted to briefly praise Brett Kavanaugh, whom I know from clerking, and whose work I've followed since he has been on the D.C. [read post]
29 Mar 2023, 5:07 am
Several countries use the currency "dinar. [read post]
10 Mar 2022, 7:10 pm
I hadn't heard the term (in the form "ruscist") until listening to "Bayraktar" this morning—as you might gather, it's a portmanteau of "Russian" and "fascism. [read post]
13 Jan 2022, 12:37 pm
Check it out, if you're one of the three people who haven't yet discovered this word game. [read post]
11 May 2018, 2:40 pm
An interesting case about libel and science; I will quote from the magistrate's report and recommendations in Santilli v. [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 3:00 pm
More than a decade ago, linguist Geoff Pullum (Language Log) coined the terms "linguify" and "linguification": To linguify a claim about things in the world is to take that claim and construct from it an entirely different claim that makes reference to the words or other linguistic items used to talk about those things, and then use the latter claim in a context where the former would be appropriate. [read post]
10 Mar 2022, 9:56 am
[A Ukrainian-language song from the war (with English subtitles).] [read post]
1 May 2018, 4:03 pm
The distress signal "Mayday! [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 5:41 am
A reader mentioned a claim that I'd heard before, which is that governments can only have powers, and only people can have rights. [read post]
4 Mar 2022, 5:33 pm
I came across this passage from the New York Times (Andrew Kramer): Asked if he was afraid of dying in the war, [Volodymyr Zelensky] said everybody has such fears…. [read post]
3 Jan 2018, 2:46 pm
Happy new year, and hope you're enjoying our new home here at Reason! [read post]
25 Feb 2024, 12:01 pm
The Google Gemini fiasco (one of the outputs I got when I heard about is reproduced above) reminded me: If there ever is a female Pope (a term that is a derivative of the Latin Papa), shouldn't she be called a Mome? [read post]
20 Apr 2018, 8:05 am
I learned this from my brother Sasha some time ago, but I was reminded of it on our Galapagos trip, where the sea lions reminded my boys of our dog. [read post]
23 Feb 2018, 11:42 am
KATC (Josh Meny) reports: Deputies say they searched the teenager's home after a tip came in that he was planning to bring a gun to school on Wednesday spread through social media. [read post]
29 Aug 2023, 7:23 am
[What counts as an "artistic work" for purposes of special protection under the Texas anti-SLAPP statute?] [read post]
2 Jan 2018, 7:57 am
Happy new year, and hope you're enjoying our new home here at Reason! [read post]
6 Nov 2018, 3:45 pm
What language, other than English, is visibly ALL UPPERCASE in this "I voted" sticker I just got here in L.A.? [read post]
19 Mar 2022, 9:34 pm
Source: apostrophe.ua, supposedly from comments posted on Valentine's Day of this year. [read post]
