September 2, 2026

YEAH, ARCHITECTS SHOULD BE GLAD THEIR GUY LOST ON THIS. As this hilarious thread notes, they would have opened up a real can of worms establishing a precedent that you could sue if ugly buildings were inflicted on you.

Related (From Ed):

Earlier: From Bauhaus to Tom’s House: James Lileks on architect Louis Kahn.

“While browsing through an Architectural Record from 1977, there was a gushing review of the incredibly brilliant Yale Center for British Art by the incredibly brilliant Louis Kahn…Ah yes. That one. The building that gave us one of the best examples of life before and after the Second World War. Hint: Kahn’s building is on the left. You know how many years separate those two structures? Nineteen. The building on the right was completed in 1928. The building on the left was begun in 1947.”

Posted at 12:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

THE GOVERNMENT DOESN’T OFFER A SOLUTION BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT DOESN’T SEE A PROBLEM. THIS IS THEIR GOAL.

Posted at 12:19 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ELON MUSK: The Future Is Power, Chips, and Data Centers. “SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk spoke some harsh truths to EU leaders at a G20 conference in North Carolina on Tuesday — and a reminder to Americans about where the future lies.”

Posted at 12:13 pm by Stephen Green

AMERICA’S GOVERNOR: A woke protester just learned why heckling Ron DeSantis is a bad idea.

Exit quote: “This ain’t my first rodeo, lady. I’ve seen it all. And you ain’t very good at it.”

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: $400K for AI Cheaters Luxury Camp: How many colleges will survive?

“I just don’t see a world in which parents continue to indefinitely fork up nearly half a million to send their kids to AI Cheating Young Adult Luxury Camp,” tweets Tyler Austin Harper, a professor turned Atlantic writer. “Some will, but how many? Enough to sustain most colleges?”

He envisions a “black-swan-esque event where significant chunks of higher ed collapse suddenly.” Colleges are playing chicken with parents, he tweets. “The wager seems to be that college is so entrenched as the default that parents will continue to pay for it even as the value proposition and quality collapse due to AI. I think that bluff gets called.”

The Syracuse University is in trouble, reports Douglas Belkin and Roshan Fernandez in the Wall Street Journal. Total cost of attendance at the private university increased to $98,544 this year. Enrollment fell short.

Syracuse borrowed “nearly half a billion in debt to build desperately needed new dorms,” they write. To fill the dorms, the university may need to lower admissions standards, risking its prestige and reducing its appeal to students whose parents can pay tuition.

To be fair, most universities have done much worse than that to damage their prestige.

Posted at 11:42 am by Stephen Green

“FOR THIS REASON, ACADEMIA DOESN’T JUST ATTRACT LEFTISTS, IT ATTRACTS THE MOST NEUROTIC, EMOTIONALLY FRAGILE, AND INTELLECTUALLY CONFORMING LEFTISTS”:

Posted at 11:26 am by Stephen Green

KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY…:

…and keep lots of powder.

And if you don’t click through to the second screencap, it contains this gem: “All leftist teaching says unity!”

Except, of course, for all the people lefties need to murder.

Posted at 10:55 am by Stephen Green

HMM: Pentagon Will Own 35% Of Venezuela Oil Venture, White House Reveals.

The announcement comes three days after Trump unveiled the agreement without naming the private partner or the terms of the deal. The Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) will hold the 35% ownership stake in the venture while the State Department will also hold the right to buy 20% of the venture’s output at cost and the right of first refusal on the rest, according to a Monday fact sheet from the White House.

The Trump administration identified the partner in the deal as North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP) — a Venezuelan-owned firm that is the country’s second-largest oil operator behind Chevron.

State ownership doesn’t usually go very well.

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green

THE FRESH YOUNG FACE OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY:

Posted at 10:24 am by Stephen Green

EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS: William English’s National Firearms Survey 2.0 Should Terrify Assault Weapons Ban Fans.

“The new survey also shows at least 25 percent of American gun owners currently own an AR-15 type rifle, 12.9% currently own other similarly styled semi-automatic rifles, and 30.0% – approximately 26.4 million adults – currently own at least one firearm in one of these two categories,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “This updated National Firearms Survey is loaded with information and it is presented in an easy-to-understand narrative. Honestly, this new survey comes at a very important moment, considering that we’re looking at a major Supreme Court case on the constitutionality of laws banning AR-15 type rifles and pistols, probably sometime this fall.

“The Citizens Committee is particularly interested in the number of law-abiding Americans who carry firearms for personal safety in public places,” he added. “With all of those millions of legally armed private citizens responsibly carrying firearms, it explodes another myth of the gun ban bunch, that more guns in private hands leads to more crime. As we recently noted, thanks to updated FBI data, that is simply not the case.

“More guns, less crime,” the wise man once said.

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green

HISTORY:

Posted at 9:22 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Begun, the Meme Assault on Canada Has… “They’ve all lost their way up there ever since we took hockey from them. Canada’s biggest export in recent years has been reasons to mock it. Canadian Maple Festival King (also called the ‘prime minister’) Mark Carney (no relation to Art) has just given us the best one yet. He doesn’t want to engage in talks about a trade agreement because Americans have been giving him a good taunting.”

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green

HMM: US Mysteriously Waives Sanctions Against Iran’s Bloodthirsty State Broadcaster, Again, Even as Network Puts Bounties on Trump Family’s Heads.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) is the hardline regime’s chief propaganda organ, responsible for blasting Tehran’s virulent brand of radicalism to a domestic audience and supporters across the globe, including inside the United States. The IRIB has become instrumental to the regime’s survival in the past year, since nationwide protests inside Iran threatened the mullahs’ hold on power in the lead-up to the U.S.-led war. In recent weeks, the IRIB—which oversees a wide network of media including newspapers, websites, and social media channels—has been responsible for publishing a series of disturbing death threats against Trump, his wife Melania, and their son Barron. This includes an Aug. 23 video, since taken down, purporting to document both Melania and Barron’s movements as part of an assassination scheme that the Secret Service says it is actively monitoring.

But during this time, the State Department waived longstanding sanctions on the IRIB, permitting it to freely operate and access satellite services that are pivotal to its existence, the Free Beacon has learned. Crippling financial sanctions and taking steps to block the IRIB’s technical operations would make it hard for the regime mouthpiece to broadcast outside Iran, and would undermine its internal broadcasting and publishing operations as well.

In 1999 and 2003, the United States and its allies bombed state television in Belgrade and Baghdad, effectively shutting down state media for a time. The United States is not believed to have targeted Iranian state broadcasting in its current campaign.

That’s… odd.

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED:

Posted at 8:27 am by Glenn Reynolds