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Samuel Moyn 🔭
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“Forerunner” (NY Mag). “Middler” (NYer). “Howlingly wrong” (colleague). “Gerontocracy in America” (2026). “I didn’t expect it to gain immediate acceptance.”
- Clarence Thomas, concurring: "in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell."
- “Her father’s a Marxist professor”—sadly true of a number of leading neoliberals
- “The truth is, we are condemned to the future we are going to be forced to live in because two octogenarians had egos too big to know when they had to quit: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Joe Biden.”
- Calling all @Yale liberals--and their enemies. @DouthatNYT, Bryan Garsten, and I are teaching a new spring course on the crisis of liberalism, its origins, and possible outcomes. Syllabus:
- It is indeed a big and flagrant step towards fascism.The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil—a green card holder whose wife is eight months pregnant—is a blatant assault on the First Amendment and a sign of advancing authoritarianism under Trump. He must be released now.
- “If a Native American liberation movement came and fired an R.P.G. at my apartment building because I’m living on stolen land, it wouldn’t be justified. You either accept international humanitarian law or you don’t.” -Rashid Khalidi @andrewmarantz
- Literally five or six of the last ten columns and opeds posted on all topics by @nytopinion are about disciplining the left, with zero counterpoint. Sad.
- 🔥 🔥 This will be read and taught for years. Nikolas Bowie @nikobowie has written an extraordinary essay as a witness at the coming Supreme Court commission hearing. Everyone should read and share it. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
