Glenn Reynolds
Glenn Reynolds
Glenn Harlan Reynoldsis Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, and is best known for his weblog, Instapundit, a widely read American political weblog. He has published numerous books, columns, and academic articles...
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What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at all. That is, they aren't particularly smart, or competent.
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When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.
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Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.
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Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere.
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It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.
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The secret of the 21st century is attract a lot of smart people to focus on problems that you think are important.
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The whole Street is sitting around waiting for confirmation of Dana payments.
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People used to be ignorant. It was hard to learn things. You had to go to libraries, look things up, perhaps sit and wait until a book was fetched from storage, or recalled from another user, or borrowed from a different library . . . Things are different today. I'm writing this in a bar right now, and I have most of human knowledge at my fingertips.
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Commerce and free expression on the Internet have flourished because it's available to everyone on the same basis. That's how it should continue to be.
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This whole process is part economics, part bankruptcy law, part ideology and part game theory -- but 100 percent painful.
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It seems to me that it's a fairly narrow market that's going to pay for the privilege of reading columns by Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman and such,
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Whether (Tyco's) life as a short-seller's clay pigeon has been the driver or whether the company's own inability to make the case clearly enough has been the culprit, (Tyco) now is in a major league quandary,
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Theyre acting like the target of a scandal,
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After Katrina, when people started talking about it costing $250 billion for repair and reconstruction, it made people think about cutting some of the projects that are everywhere.