The Supreme Court has, for a long time, preferred to review laws on the basis of their "instrumental rationality" rather than on the basis of their compliance with discrete rights (ie, rights to this or that). I actually suspect this was done in order to make the courts *more*

Many falsely believed, for example, that American annexation was an actual threat.

Readers may be interested in our podcast on the Development of Doctrine, recorded with Prof. Adrian Vermeule and Maître Xavier FM: open.spotify.com/episode/18fYQt…

The postliberal view has always been that liberalism was illusory - that it advertised itself as something it wasn’t, and that in reality it was itself a comprehensive and substantive faith, a complete ordering of the world, with an eschatology, soteriology, and so on.

the last living client of frank lloyd wright, roland reisley, is 101 and has lived in his flw house for 73 years. this quote from him about it made me cry

okay dildo discourse is usually not my cup of tea but like imagine thinking the dildo insurgents, people already willing to smuggle synthetic meat missiles into a nationally broadcast sporting event are gonna be deterred by a tote ban. it’s pure signal, zero deterrence. if

The universities will not reform themselves and there is no alternative to restoring reason through an exercise of public authority.

technology and human attention really make that we all become sellers and worse we become influencers across the board fighting the algorithm, or the machine

In AI era, archivists have the duty to share and transmit, bring back to the surface Truth and Beauty, salience which requires limited human attention among the pollution flood.

ME: Wtf, the Supreme Court wants the MOSQUE KILLER to get parole?? What's next, Paul Bernardo? LIBERALS: Don't be silly. They can APPLY for parole, but they'd never get it. Parole boards are reasonable. PAROLE BOARD: We've released the Child Decapitator nationalpost.com/news/canada/do…

Professor Maxime St-Hilaire and Xavier FM had it right 5 years ago when they wrote that in the face of a s.33 invocation there is "nothing to declare". ruleoflaw.ca/articles/nothi…

This is the pure essence of democracy

Why do we even have votes, democracy and courts at this point, why not just put the judges in charge and be done with it, we would be so much more enlightened.

Very much looking forward to speaking at this important conference on Charles de Koninck, the common good, and federalism. October 1-3, to be held at just the right place: Université Laval in Québec. The Laval School lives! Link here: fd.ulaval.ca/evenements/col… Thanks to

Today was my last day at xAI, the company that I helped start with Elon Musk in 2023. I still remember the day I first met Elon, we talked for hours about AI and what the future might hold. We both felt that a new AI company with a different kind of mission was needed. Building

Crazy how every day under the Democrats their White House account was just like “Happy Birthday to Idkaliali Moachim, the first Indigenous woman to have an abortion” and now under Trump we get deportation pixel art kino

Jurists, political scientists, and philosophers will gather in Quebec City to critically revive the thought of Charles De Koninck on constitutionalism, the common good, and federalism. Keynote lecture by Adrian Vermeule A symposium not to be missed! 👉 fd.ulaval.ca/en/evenements/…

Lineup for our upcoming conference at Université Laval on Charles de Koninck's political and constitutional thought. With an opening night keynote from none other than Adrian Vermeule. Not to be missed!