The Debate Link

I hate on the Eighth Circuit a lot on this blog -- prerogative of a former clerk -- but one thing I do like about it is that it has largely ...

Yes, I've heard about "that" graduation speech at CUNY Law . I'm not interested in parsing it; I have better things to do ...

Do you ever idly puzzle through various ideas for a "perfect crime"? It's awkward to talk about -- you don't actually want...

  If you asked me to write a parody of what folks bleating on about DEI indoctrination sound like, I couldn't do a better job than how  ...

This blog is called The Debate Link . That's no accident. I started this blog when I was eighteen, just after graduation, when debate wa...

At the moment, we're seeing two somewhat orthogonal trends developing in conservative legal jurisprudence, both lawless , but in distin...

A few weeks ago, when the New York City Council was debating a resolution combating antisemitism, we had a bit of awkwardness when various l...

The Biden Administration has released its long-awaited document outlining an ambitious national strategy to combat antisemitism . "This...

 Ron DeSantis' botched campaign rollout includes the following hats. What happened to the letter "F"? I have to assume that so...

For the first time in awhile, my representative in Congress is a Republican -- Lori Chavez-Deremer . One of the very few bright spots of tha...

There was a little chatter this week that the Biden Administration, as part of its initiative to combat antisemitism, might give a positive ...

Among the more prominent fusions of antisemitism and racism is the idea that Black political leaders are really just mouthpieces of the Jews...

A former writer for Mintpress News -- a notorious conspiracy website infamous for antisemitism, Assad-apologism, and overall tankie-ism -- h...

The panel of Fifth Circuit judges who will hear the appeal of the bonkers Texas decision that purported to outlaw mifepristone  has been ann...

The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington has put out a voter's guide for Virginia's upcoming 2023 state legislat...

No doubt you've heard about the CNN-hosted Trump "town hall" ( in a "town" that only includes Republicans and Republ...

If Donald Trump is elected president in 2024, there is a near-100% chance he will pardon the January 6 insurrectionists. I think that is eff...

No, this isn't about the Kentucky Derby. This is about the jury that just found that former President Donald Trump sexually abused and d...

We're all by now familiar with the scandals in Tennessee and Montana , where Republican-controlled legislatures sought to expel or othe...