Sunday Links
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- Gay Talese, who is (was?) famous for being a natty-suited regular at a group of terrible restaurants favored by a certain generation of New York provincial and to a lesser extent for his writing, opines that “I didn’t know any women writers that I loved.” It sucks when a writer you admire turns out to be a sexist asshole (which in Talese’s case has been known for a long time.) Fortunately, in this case my reaction to Talese has generally been “apparently you had to be there, and I’m not sure that would have helped.” Perhaps an 800-page period novel about a group of overpraised journalists tucking in to some substandard hospital food at Elaine’s and Gino will provide the necessary context one day.
- American law in 2016: yesterday’s crank blog post is tomorrow’s federal court opinion, preferably in dissent.
- Heritage Foundation fellow complains that “[w]e have allowed the courts in general but the Supreme Court in particular to become too powerful.” Omitted: references to Shelby County, Citizens United, Bush v. Gore, NFIB v. Sebelius…I could go on like this.
- Will Hillary Clinton be indicted? SPOILER: no. (Sorry, HA!)
- Judicial independence is a luxury the parody of evil conservatives running Kansas can no longer afford.
- Please stop the “Warren for veep” talk. She’s much more valuable in the Senate.