Peter Spiliakos

Does Senator Tom Cotton have the discipline and imagination to deal with a radicalizing, hysterical, and venomous Democratic elite? firstthings.com/web-exclusives…

Oh My God

I asked ChatGPT to help me write a knee-slapping Late Show monologue for Stephen Colbert

Imagine signing your name to this.

One of my unpopular opinions is that having one really weird building breaks up the monotony as long as you don't get a lot of it (in which case it gets depressing and alienating.) I wouldn't want a city full of Hoover buildings, but one in heavily neoclassical D.C. is fine.

My unpopular opinion is that the first and third verses of Ice, Ice, Baby are pretty good.

Yeah, he blew that one.

With Terry Bollea's (Hulk Hogan's) death yesterday, it's a good time to look back at the biggest thing I was ever involved in. For over 3 years, I spent more than half of my worktime on one case-- Bollea v. Gawker. It was Charles Harder's case-- I handled "the appeal side".

Excellent thread. The Gawker management and staff were scum and the actions they were sanctioned for were not First Amendment protected and they should have been sanctioned worse but many of their victims did not have thr resources to sue them.

I wrote the case for Abundance Democrats to engage in the debate over cultural issues — a key part of the left-populist pitch inside the coalition is the false promise that populist economics will let you get away being out of touch on values issues.

So April Fool's is a twice yearly thing now?

She's a prison abolitionist, not a gulag abolitionist. That's how you know she's a good person.

now, you might ask: am I being too harsh on noted prison abolitionist scholar Angela Davis and the institutions that honor her? to that I can only answer: I am not being harsh enough

if mainstream liberals had ever had 1/10 the anger for their most respected institutions giving honors to someone who’s supported every communist evil under the sun that they have for someone like me chatting with assorted right-wing ne’er-do-wells, we wouldn’t be in this mess

every single top-tier institution in academia is complicit in this every one of them has either turned a blind eye or actively supported it the rot runs to the root and there is no excuse

like honestly people are mad at Trump for going after higher ed and I’m mad at everyone for not going after higher ed enough they keep research around as a hostage puppy while they lavish honors on all their pet commies rotten to the core nytimes.com/2025/07/23/nyr…

my most right-wing stance is that every one of these institutions is morally rotten and that the mainstream consensus deserves no deference or respect as long as it treats people like Davis as heroes

100x

Republicans can and do compete for 60+ seats. Their problem is that they blow a dozen of them routinely because they nominate people that would get banned from a neighborhood cookout. But Trump won 31 seats and came close in NH and MN!