Written April 2025 This is good news of course though more importantly it is beyond depressing that our institutions have been so thoroughly captured by nonsense beloved of bad faith activists running rings around people educated beyond their intelligence. It is right that people are celebrating, and we should congratulate the brave women leading the campaigns, but the fact remains that the Law in nearly all important senses does not define what a woman is: we do. The legal ruling’s important political consequence is that it makes monkeys of large numbers of our credentialed class: we should never underestimate how...

Written March to April 2025 Very briefly, the Trump tariffs are very important. Whether they are the best way of upending the global economic order is doubtful; I don’t think Trump particularly cares, getting people’s attention that actual meaningful change is happening is the point. Change for the economic order that broke in 2007 and has been made worse by the actions of politicians since is long, long overdue. The world of dollar hegemony, unipolarity, China dumping its surplus of manufactured goods, the EU pretending it is a big shot through its regulatory prowess etc etc are gone. What replaces...