Adrian Vermeule
@Vermeullarmine
@Harvard_Law. New Digest substack: https://thenewdigest.substack.com/. Personal opinions. Tweets delete periodically.
The main point isn’t monarchy literally or specifically. The main point is that to oppose the perpetual Revolution, one must establish a genuinely legal order, not merely change the political valence of lawless violence. I tried to get at the issue here: open.substack.com/pub/thenewdige…
Here's a very cool paper from David Pozen and @JulianNyarko finding what they call the "Twitter bump" -- a very large uptick in citation counts and journal prestige for law professors who use Twitter. Here's the key figure:
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — US Olympic and Paralympic officials bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports.
The district judges in NJ just proved this was never about law—it was about politics. They forced out President Trump’s pick, @USAttyHabba, then installed her deputy, colluding with the NJ Senators along the way. It won’t work. Pursuant to the President’s authority, we have…
.@USAttyHabba has been doing a great job in making NJ safe again. Nonetheless, politically minded judges refused to allow her to continue in her position, replacing Alina with the First Assistant. Accordingly, the First Assistant United States Attorney in New Jersey has just…
Law-Skepticism On The New Right "El escepticismo legal en la nueva derecha" Un lúcido trabajo de @Vermeullarmine donde evidencia la debilidad política de las posturas que rechazan al derecho natural como fuente del orden, de la justicia y de la paz. open.substack.com/pub/thenewdige…
Devastating and brutally credible indictment.
The University of Florida is the new leader in the study of Western and American civilization. So-called elite universities have abandoned the study of Western culture and politics over the last 25 years, and that betrayal has given other institutions the opportunity to create…
Glad to see the well-documented community note on this nasty bit of misinformation
Have you noticed the pattern in which one Pope after the next will focus on the Jewish state & slandering it, while completely ignoring the actual genocide of Christians in the Middle East including right this minute in Syria?
Hot take: the fact that world-class scholars like Jim Hankins (one of the very, very few non-progressive humanists at Harvard College) are willing to move from Harvard to Florida is a more fundamental long-term threat to the university than any of its current legal problems.
The University of Florida is the new leader in the study of Western and American civilization. So-called elite universities have abandoned the study of Western culture and politics over the last 25 years, and that betrayal has given other institutions the opportunity to create…
One cost of the Great Awokening was that people spent too much time managing their own reputations within institutions and professional circles, and not enough time thinking about how they were coming off outside it:
This is exactly the kind of thing I meant when I said all this has completely changed my conception of human beings: here, how many supposed experts are prepared to utter obvious nonsense in highly consequential contexts
Listening to an A&E consultant Kate Searle in the Peggie v NHS Fife claim she knows she's female because "she was assigned female at birth" and then say "she's not an expert in it". Absolutely excruciating symptom of how gender ideology rots medical & scientific knowledge.
Can everyone please be sane for five seconds? No, Pope Leo XIV did not "traffic in blood libel."
It is normal and good for our pope to call for peace no matter the circumstances. It has not been normal for many centuries for the head of the Catholic Church to traffic in blood libel.
Hope springs eternal for the nondelegation enthusiasts
Environmental groups have filed a new nondelegation challenge to DHS authority to waive legal requirements for border wall construction. It may be a heavy lift, but would give the Court an opportunity to revive the doctrine if it were so inclined. 1/
Carole, of course, is one of the clearest cases of an intelligent academic with intellectual integrity cancelled for expressing basic knowledge of sex. I recall that in a podcast she mentioned that not a single colleague came to her defence – not even long-time friends.
"Among those who can overcome the trauma of having the issue raised, one favored gambit is to act as if it is an unreasonable expectation for academics to know whether or not there are male women." Damning, highly entertaining. Well worth your time. philosophersmag.com/philosophical-…
A fascinating conversation is unfolding @thenewdigest on the question: can an AI make “law”? The latest installment today, and more to come! api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy…
This morning at @thenewdigest we are pleased to present a rebuttal to my earlier piece on skepticism of Congress.ai by @KKGandall et al. Check it out and see if you are convinced. thenewdigest.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-o…
This morning at @thenewdigest we are pleased to present a rebuttal to my earlier piece on skepticism of Congress.ai by @KKGandall et al. Check it out and see if you are convinced. thenewdigest.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-o…
Dr. Walker does great work and you should buy his book, Faithful Reason, especially if you are a Protestant who is skeptical of natural law theory. In a sense I suppose I agree with Dr. Walker's observation, but let me explain why (I'm not sure if he sees the same thing I see in…
This is an excellent and important article that demonstrates how substantive moral categories lurk beneath so-called value-neutral legal judgments. lawliberty.org/logic-without-…
“There is a very clear problem with assisted suicide in its new guise: The state, with its almighty power, is tasked with both paying for the support of the old and disabled and regulating their dying.”
“All human politics is ultimately theological”:
Hamas and the Vatican are in bed together. They both lied about the church destruction and the deaths in order to drive a wedge between Israel and the Biblical Christians that stand with them.