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As for Italian 🇮🇹 boxer Angela Carini — kneeling, humiliated, withdrawn from the Paris 2024 match, in tears after being forced to fight a biological male, Iman Khalif — we respectfully await an apology Thank you

Great short piece by Adrian Vermeule. It pithily captures both the fact that CGC shares originalism’ animating concern for the integrity of positive law and the fact laws are not just cryptic phrases that need meaning projected onto them by judges, and the fact that, unlike

Adrian Vermeule I sometimes wonder if this isn’t a byproduct of the general exclusion of conservatives from academia. The right ends up looking elsewhere for its thought leaders; but then the “attention economy” predominates way too much.

Adrian Vermeule One needs to be able to recognize when too many of one’s priors are being confirmed in much the same way that one needs to be able to recognize when one has had enough to drink.

lmao

Its as though originalism itself cannot give an answer and does not prescribe one, and the choice itself represents the use of political morality via adjudication and interpretation.

Christianity was the foundation of the Western legal order for 1500 years

“In order to favor liberty, the English have removed all the intermediate powers that formed their monarchy. They are quite right to preserve that liberty; if they were to lose it, they would be one of the most enslaved peoples on earth.” - Montesquieu

Was America a free country from its Founding through roughly 1941?

Trump wins the appeals court lottery in D.C. The panel hearing emergency appeals this month appears to be: Rao, Katsas, Walker. All three are Trump appointees — in fact the only Trump appointees on the DC Circuit. They are handling one of the key tariff appeals.

(1) Spot the confusion here; (2) This is exactly why legal “conservatism” (libertarianism) is losing influence by the day

People who are actually principled don’t spend all their time talking about how they’re principled.

The logic here is v interesting. Why not also “is a society that routinely prosecutes murder free?” Perhaps the real answer is that the notion of “free” here is an impoverished one.

Bottom line: “The world’s fertility crisis is worse than you thought, even after considering you already thought it was bad.”

Louis IX’s deathbed letter to his son Phillip III advising him on kingship. It’s page after page of this. Yes, I think it’s safe to say he was really a believer guided by Christian principles.

Der Niedergang der seriösen Universitäten (oder der Seriosität der Universitäten) lässt eine große Lücke. Wer weiß, dass er belogen wird, kennt immer noch nicht die Wahrheit. Zu viele ignorieren das.