| 1 | Feb 8, '25 | Judicial interference with legitimate acts of state, especially the internal functioning of a co-equal branch, is a violation of the separation of powers. | 77.7× | 1.4M | 16k | 3.3k | 477 |
| 2 | Sep 11, '25 | This is important for understanding how we got where we are, and what needs to happen now. Prominent ultra-violent radicals of the 1970s were even given university jobs, influencin | 50.7× | 923k | 5.3k | 918 | 415 |
| 3 | Feb 22, '25 | This stuff is at least as damaging to the rule of law as any action surrounding TROs or whatnot. The first and most central commitment of any civilized legal system is the suppress | 41.9× | 763k | 2.8k | 398 | 99 |
| 4 | May 7, '25 | The issue is that it’s anti-any-sane-conception-of-civilization | 38.2× | 697k | 3.5k | 544 | 93 |
| 5 | May 23, '25 | If the universities want to remain open to international students, they should first do a better job of being open to the Other America, which they have mocked and despised for dec | 37.1× | 676k | 3.1k | 397 | 115 |
| 6 | Mar 2, '25 | Nothing, but nothing, makes the American liberal angrier than someone who rises from the underclass while rejecting the ideology that the professional class tries to enforce | 34× | 620k | 19k | 2.3k | 529 |
| 7 | Mar 19, '25 | Would honestly prefer Berdyaev’s footnote “it was revealed to me in a dream” | 28.4× | 517k | 2.3k | 301 | 233 |
| 8 | Jun 13, '25 | If your reaction to this is that “the process is working,” you’re missing the point. Any one of almost 700 district judges might intervene at any time to block anything the Preside | 28.2× | 515k | 3.7k | 687 | 134 |
| 9 | Sep 11, '25 | Charlie Kirk tried to win hearts and minds through open debate with all comers; his enemies found it intolerable and assassinated him. One reaction, a bad reaction, is private viol | 28× | 509k | 3.5k | 436 | 239 |
| 10 | Feb 23, '25 | Everything low and contemptible about the modern minor intellectual is packed into this one tweet: the pseudo-cleverness in bad faith (why use the whole earth as the denominator? S | 26.2× | 478k | 8.4k | 558 | 688 |
| 11 | Sep 22, '25 | This is a false dichotomy. The Christian citizen forgives so that the murderer is no longer a private enemy; the state punishes because the murderer is still a public enemy. | 24.8× | 452k | 9.3k | 1k | 631 |
| 12 | Oct 25, '24 | Trump has to meet a very high bar to rule as our most authoritarian President ever. If he sends an ethnic minority to internment camps, tries to pack the Court, and stays in office | 23.9× | 435k | 12k | 1.8k | 955 |
| 13 | May 23, '25 | At this point the TROs are basically an automatic judicial veto on all new policy, and then the courts of appeals decide whether the judicial veto should be suspended. Whatever for | 23.2× | 424k | 5.5k | 1.4k | 272 |
| 14 | Sep 30, '25 | My take on this, for whatever it’s worth, is that people are reading into it a depth that it doesn’t have. The simpler read is that American liberalism has been intellectually enfe | 21.7× | 395k | 3.8k | 394 | 464 |
| 15 | Jun 14, '25 | Nobody should opine on this until Judge Breyer tells us how serious it is | 19.2× | 349k | 2.1k | 300 | 60 |
| 16 | Sep 8, '25 | Just want to note, on one of my longstanding themes, that back in 2015 or so, no “respectable” person would have imagined that one day the President and Vice-President would have b | 19.1× | 348k | 2.4k | 221 | 176 |
| 17 | Nov 13, '25 | I just don’t care what William F. Buckley would have thought. | 19.1× | 347k | 2.8k | 204 | 90 |
| 18 | Feb 15, '25 | What’s so striking about liberal law professors is that they can’t even understand contrary views, perhaps because of lack of exposure to them. The contrary view is of course that | 18.8× | 343k | 2.2k | 442 | 112 |
| 19 | Sep 15, '25 | Repeat: the answer isn’t “pick up the microphone that Charlie Kirk was holding.” The answer is to use the full authority and force of the law to restore conditions in which people | 18.6× | 338k | 5k | 715 | 189 |
| 20 | Jul 26, '25 | Chateaubriand observes somewhere that when the peak fever of the Revolution had passed, most people simply didn’t talk about it. The human mind couldn’t process the scale of the ma | 17.7× | 323k | 3.4k | 674 | 434 |
| 21 | Feb 25, '25 | Thanks to SCOTUS’ profile-in-courage ruling to … simply not decide the government’s emergency appeal for relief, the Special Counsel, fired by the President, continues to exercise | 16.6× | 303k | 1.3k | 409 | 70 |
| 22 | Apr 17, '25 | I just don’t understand this. Garcia was not a legal resident, and he was afforded multiple hearings before immigration courts on his legal claims. It doesn’t begin to be an accura | 16.1× | 293k | 1.9k | 265 | 118 |
| 23 | Apr 19, '25 | From the Supreme Court’s decision in US v. Texas (2023) (written by Justice Kavanaugh): “Th[e] principle of enforcement discretion over arrests and prosecutions extends to the immi | 15.9× | 290k | 1.5k | 512 | 186 |
| 24 | Dec 26, '24 | Nerds should be on tap, not on top. (And I say that as an incorrigible nerd myself). This is actually broader than the immigration issue. It has to do with what sort of elite, what | 15.8× | 288k | 2.7k | 281 | 405 |
| 25 | Jan 16, '25 | I find the whole debate on the right about the life prospects of the young extremely confusing. As far as I can make out, the youth are arguing that (1) the *system* in which they | 15.2× | 278k | 2k | 206 | 201 |
| 26 | Jul 17, '25 | What I find puzzling and interesting about NPR is the same thing, in miniature, that I find puzzling about liberalism in many contexts: the utter inability to impose limits on itse | 15× | 274k | 4.3k | 416 | 381 |
| 27 | Mar 16, '25 | “The executive — alone of national institutions — has the capacity to take action in the real world, outside the law books, and that action changes the status quo facing other inst | 15× | 273k | 1.3k | 198 | 60 |
| 28 | Aug 11, '25 | The whole crime discourse is annoying because some people are talking about crime in the strict legal sense, and some are talking about pervasive social disorder which does not nec | 14.7× | 268k | 2k | 336 | 283 |
| 29 | Nov 29, '24 | I don’t know how the UK vote on “assisted dying” will turn out; I hope for the best, that is, for the defeat of the bill. But one thing that makes me nervous is that so many of the | 14.2× | 259k | 1.3k | 210 | 139 |
| 30 | Mar 21, '25 | One note on the impeachment-of-judges debate: Whatever one thinks of the issue, it is plainly wrong, indeed egregiously wrong, to say that the case for impeachment rests on “mere d | 13.8× | 252k | 3.2k | 706 | 107 |
| 31 | Jun 13, '25 | Another day, another district judge so far over the line that the line isn’t visible in the rear-view mirror. One way or another, this has to end. | 13.7× | 250k | 2.7k | 618 | 63 |
| 32 | Feb 10, '25 | It’s odd that some read this as addressing the complicated and historically fraught topic of executive refusal to obey judicial judgments. The much more straightforward — and less | 13.4× | 245k | 1.2k | 187 | 88 |
| 33 | Mar 12, '25 | Next time the United States is involved in armed conflict some district judge from DC will be moving units around on a map in her office, enjoining the disposition of forces. | 13× | 237k | 3k | 576 | 72 |
| 34 | Sep 3, '23 | What I find most disturbing about modern intellectuals is that, having cut themselves off from millennia of tradition and its debates, they rediscover entry-level arguments and tak | 13× | 236k | 1.9k | 331 | 128 |
| 35 | Jul 31, '25 | On the mutiny by lower-court judges: | 13× | 236k | 1.6k | 414 | 117 |
| 36 | Jul 28, '25 | If one were somehow to actually meet a European noble of any time before about the 16th century, they would seem bizarrely paradoxical from the modern standpoint - both more brutal | 12.9× | 235k | 3.8k | 219 | 784 |
| 37 | Sep 26, '25 | And the supposedly “lawless” administration extends its win streak at the highest court in the land to something like 20-0 | 12.8× | 233k | 2.9k | 384 | 151 |
| 38 | Sep 26, '25 | I have no idea who this person is or what he said. However, I had no trouble at all guessing what country he’s from. | 12.5× | 228k | 4.2k | 349 | 103 |
| 39 | Nov 2, '25 | My only comment on the recent infighting on the American right, involving not only political actors but a number of Internet personalities I neither know nor care to know: History | 12× | 219k | 1.3k | 216 | 108 |
| 40 | Sep 9, '25 | A remarkable demonstration case: under @nayibbukele, a state has essentially eliminated murder. | 12× | 219k | 1.4k | 252 | 40 |
| 41 | Jul 19, '25 | One of the more disgusting things I’ve ever seen on this site | 11.6× | 212k | 3.3k | 271 | 96 |
| 42 | Sep 22, '25 | Our public sphere is Christian again | 11.5× | 210k | 2.2k | 179 | 98 |
| 43 | Sep 18, '25 | My most lib opinion is it’s absolutely shameful that Mrs. Macron has to go through this and I hope she gets every last cent, plus the dog | 11.4× | 207k | 2.4k | 157 | 82 |
| 44 | Nov 1, '25 | The reason one knows this can’t be legally correct isn’t due to this or that rule of positive law, but because it contradicts the very nature and purpose of a republic. | 11.3× | 206k | 4.2k | 547 | 137 |
| 45 | Nov 9, '22 | It’s funny to see GOP types debating which candidates or issues would have made a difference, when the simplest hypothesis is that there is a critical mass of voters who will suppo | 10.8× | 0 | 10k | 1.7k | 306 |
| 46 | Nov 7, '24 | I’m begging our European friends not to get their understanding of American politics from the Guardian. It’s roughly akin to trying to understand European politics by reading Aster | 10.5× | 192k | 5.3k | 699 | 140 |
| 47 | Jun 17, '25 | For years, I’ve heard British people say, with a tinge of pride, “well here we don’t have culture wars over abortion, unlike the United States.” Maybe you should’ve had them. | 10.5× | 191k | 4.3k | 465 | 129 |
| 48 | Jul 10, '25 | Exactly right. There are two basic reasons that telling the elite universities to “just stop discriminating against conservatives” won’t work: (1) The people doing the hiring don’t | 10.1× | 184k | 1.4k | 248 | 156 |
| 49 | Jun 24, '25 | The “defiance of judicial orders” is coming from inside the house | 10.1× | 183k | 1.9k | 345 | 101 |
| 50 | Sep 21, '23 | This thread vividly illustrates that we *already* live in an ideologically integrated constitutional order, dominated by one faction. It has an official political theology, America | 9.7× | 178k | 1k | 288 | 127 |
| 51 | Apr 18, '25 | A number of judges have seemingly adopted a constitutional meta-principle: what a past President did, President Trump may not undo | 9.3× | 170k | 1.9k | 410 | 112 |
| 52 | Oct 3, '24 | Putting aside mathematics and the natural sciences, my test for a bogus academic field is whether its practitioners believe that the true nature of their subject was not perceived | 8.3× | 151k | 1.2k | 201 | 140 |
| 53 | Dec 20, '24 | If the Wall Street Journal is to be believed, for the past four years, the executive power of the United States has been vested solely in a man who was known by his own advisors to | 7.9× | 144k | 2.3k | 500 | 101 |
| 54 | Mar 19, '25 | We can agree to disagree on many things, but this is false. Shanghai is beautiful, clean, fun and safe. Here’s a photo I took of a random cafe in a random side street just because | 7.8× | 142k | 1.4k | 129 | 98 |
| 55 | Apr 28, '25 | From the NYT today. Out of 35 law professors, guess who was the one … | 7.5× | 136k | 2.1k | 111 | 179 |
| 56 | Sep 17, '25 | With all due respect, a “marketplace of ideas” doesn’t function very well when there is a standing risk of being murdered for participating in it. | 7.3× | 134k | 2.3k | 354 | 74 |
| 57 | May 2, '25 | So, if I’m following, “democracy” is when the security services investigate a leading political party, make an unpublished determination of “extremism” that licenses surveillance, | 7.3× | 132k | 2k | 320 | 101 |
| 58 | May 27, '25 | Incredible stuff on the new @StateDept Substack: | 7.0× | 128k | 1k | 144 | 216 |
| 59 | Jan 14, '25 | The divorce between liberalism and democracy was inevitable once liberals realized they could no longer control the democracy. | 6.4× | 117k | 1.3k | 217 | 186 |
| 60 | Aug 19, '25 | Institutionally, Europe has fallen between two stools. It has lost the vigor and creativity that a continent of decentralized, genuinely sovereign states displayed, yet without acq | 6.4× | 116k | 1.3k | 203 | 154 |
| 61 | Jul 12, '25 | Incredible. Throughout history, civilization has been built on a willingness to forcefully suppress the violence of barbarians, without worrying about “deeper causes.” | 6.3× | 116k | 1.4k | 151 | 118 |
| 62 | Jun 23, '25 | The most powerful incentive to self-deport that anyone could possibly devise: | 6.2× | 113k | 1.3k | 190 | 46 |
| 63 | Jun 7, '25 | If the national government can’t enforce the national laws that define who is or isn’t part of the demos, that seems like a rather literal threat to Our Democracy. | 6.2× | 113k | 2.1k | 338 | 82 |
| 64 | Jan 31, '25 | You know you’re in a postliberal order when high elected leaders explain their views in terms of political theology, and the main debate isn’t over whether they are “intolerant” bu | 5.8× | 106k | 1.2k | 146 | 109 |
| 65 | Oct 21, '25 | The tweet that confirms everything conservatives say about higher education: | 5.8× | 105k | 1.5k | 138 | 148 |
| 66 | May 18, '25 | People love to talk deep theology, and I admire those who can, but one of the central themes of Leo XIII’s teaching, to which he returned over and over, was intensely practical: if | 5.6× | 102k | 1.5k | 200 | 161 |
| 67 | May 14, '25 | I don’t know how all this will turn out, or the specifics of these grants, but I do think it isn’t a long-run stable equilibrium for judges to say that the government must fund in | 5.4× | 98k | 1.1k | 210 | 41 |
| 68 | Apr 24, '25 | Remember, as the Chief Justice admonished us all, that the President can just pursue the “normal appellate review process” - like when the Court issues a sweeping midnight order ba | 5.3× | 96k | 1.3k | 358 | 70 |
| 69 | Sep 27, '25 | Institutions that celebrate the murderer of a policeman as a “revolutionary fighter for liberation” are like a cancer within the body politic. | 5.2× | 96k | 2.2k | 299 | 67 |
| 70 | Aug 12, '25 | I’m not a policy guy, but it seems to me that in the past 5 years or so, a kind of enchantment has been lifted from the public mind. The experts used to bedazzle all and sundry wit | 5.2× | 95k | 1.5k | 111 | 142 |
| 71 | Sep 16, '25 | JPII said the same: “Fundamentally, democracy is a ‘system’ and as such is a means and not an end. Its moral value is not automatic, but depends on conformity to the moral law to w | 5.1× | 94k | 2.1k | 228 | 422 |
| 72 | May 23, '25 | With all due respect, out of these two (2) examples of “conservative” faculty, one supported Harris in 2024. The other doesn’t call himself a “conservative,” because he thinks ther | 5.1× | 93k | 1.5k | 141 | 132 |
| 73 | Aug 20, '25 | I find it interesting, if only on a sociological and psychological level, that there is a subset of liberals who don’t yet realize that they have fundamentally lost their social po | 5.1× | 93k | 997 | 102 | 74 |
| 74 | Jul 22, '25 | Wait what? Who exactly issued a “legally binding order” to de-bank a prominent conservative commentator? | 5.0× | 92k | 1.6k | 166 | 48 |
| 75 | Nov 11, '24 | I see the “norms” are back after a long vacation | 4.7× | 86k | 1.4k | 189 | 38 |
| 76 | Feb 10, '25 | That’s because Christian athletes understand that God works all things for good, and that out of every loss He intends to fashion new spiritual gifts for us. | 4.7× | 85k | 1.3k | 108 | 39 |
| 77 | Feb 19, '25 | Very concerning. Obviously the defense of democracy requires an election in which the result is determined beforehand. | 4.6× | 85k | 1.1k | 157 | 35 |
| 78 | Jul 26, '25 | “Free markets,” whatever that even means, aren’t a “value.” They’re an instrument, to be used precisely up to the point they make the lives of the citizenry better, and not an inch | 4.5× | 82k | 1.1k | 127 | 78 |
| 79 | Apr 25, '25 | By some strange psychological mechanism, affirmative action in admissions, employment and contracting, all of which were supposed to be limited practices under special conditions, | 4.4× | 81k | 1.2k | 200 | 86 |
| 80 | Aug 8, '25 | True, and it underscores one of the truly toxic aspects of our time: nothing is really about what it professes to be about. The Nobel Peace Prize isn’t really for contributions to | 4.4× | 80k | 1.2k | 146 | 82 |
| 81 | Aug 2, '25 | Weird take, given that the man on the left actually holds elections | 4.2× | 76k | 1.7k | 120 | 32 |
| 82 | Jan 20, '25 | Octavian made nice with Cicero, but later allowed his name to be included on the list of proscriptions | 4.0× | 72k | 1.4k | 92 | 119 |
| 83 | May 13, '25 | I see we’re now describing the Roman and Norman conquests as “immigration” | 3.8× | 69k | 1.6k | 105 | 44 |
| 84 | Mar 18, '25 | This is actually just another example of judges exceeding the boundaries of their role. | 3.7× | 68k | 1.3k | 197 | 44 |
| 85 | Aug 15, '25 | There seem to be many on this site who don’t realize that making peace usually requires talking to people on the other side of the war. | 3.6× | 65k | 1.5k | 133 | 21 |
| 86 | Mar 5, '25 | The return of the 19th century is complete: tariffs, great-power politics, and speeches that last for two days | 3.5× | 64k | 1.1k | 128 | 54 |
| 87 | Jun 9, '25 | Playing games with the denominator is almost always sophistry. If a few thousand people engage in organized attacks on federal law enforcement, that’s a serious problem even in a c | 3.4× | 62k | 1k | 128 | 56 |
| 88 | Dec 20, '24 | Incidentally, the journalists who couldn’t stop speaking about the 25th amendment during the first Trump administration, on the flimsiest of grounds, really should do a bit of publ | 3.4× | 61k | 1.5k | 230 | 16 |
| 89 | May 3, '22 | The main play here probably isn’t an attempt to change the result at the Court. It’s an attempt to influence Congress to act before the election, either through legislation or cour | 3.2× | 0 | 3.1k | 561 | 75 |
| 90 | Apr 28, '25 | Here’s my heretical take: | 3.2× | 58k | 1.2k | 166 | 75 |
| 91 | Dec 19, '24 | Wasn’t Justice Alito mocked by the bien-pensants for suggesting that this was the logical consequence of “love is love”? | 3.1× | 57k | 978 | 82 | 77 |
| 92 | May 9, '25 | Actually he spoke of Christ, of peace, and of the Blessed Virgin, but do keep spreading falsehoods. | 3.0× | 55k | 1.6k | 119 | 51 |
| 93 | Feb 20, '25 | For me this image from the depths of the pandemic will always be the best of @pontifex — a light shining in the darkness. God bless him. | 3.0× | 54k | 1.9k | 194 | 105 |
| 94 | Jun 24, '25 | New York liberals who are suddenly terrified by the specter of socialism are like Victor Frankenstein, terrified by the monster that he labored to create. No sympathy. No asylum. | 2.9× | 53k | 1.2k | 134 | 35 |
| 95 | Apr 21, '25 | Not a word of this is true. | 2.9× | 52k | 1.3k | 56 | 36 |
| 96 | Jan 22, '25 | It’s just interesting to see the captive media keep pressing the same old button, harder and harder, unaware that it’s broken now | 2.8× | 51k | 1.1k | 142 | 24 |
| 97 | Feb 8, '25 | Absolutely shocked that a conservative administration has hired smart young lawyers with conservative credentials. What is the world coming to? | 2.7× | 50k | 1.3k | 104 | 26 |
| 98 | Nov 11, '23 | “[T]he law which is written in those books of Justinian is not merely that of the state, but also that of the nations and of nature; and with this last it is all so in accord, that | 2.5× | 45k | 206 | 41 | 36 |
| 99 | Dec 27, '24 | At this rate of public self-immolation, it’s an open question whether @DOGE will even make it to January 20 | 2.4× | 44k | 997 | 103 | 32 |
| 100 | May 11, '22 | Civics teachers around the country alarmed as they see “filibuster” redefined to mean “loses 51-49” | 1.6× | 0 | 1.6k | 258 | 9 |
| 101 | May 9, '22 | Is this … democracy in action? | 1.1× | 0 | 1.1k | 180 | 10 |
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