This Tom Clancy driven march to war has none of the legitimacy of 1985. Except Trump wants Maduro dead & his oil lining his pocket.

Not Freedom. Not Democracy. Not drug interdiction or even a coherent Strategy.

Just a war for oil.

Going to steal the constitution and rub it with lemon juice to find the secret pardon power

“National Treasure: the Dual Pardon Clause.”

Reflects some dynamics of legal scholarship. The right wing has built an ideological fortress in this space whose job is to produce arguments to serve their administrations. Not what we normally think of as scholarship. If they succeed it is because the most powerful people in the US want them to.

Outside funding by conservatives in higher ed has mostly targeted law and economics because they view these two fields as the most influential on policy. And its worked pretty well. Half of federal judges went through programs with a conservative law and economic training, changing their views.

A lot of right wing critiques of academia present it as an ideological conspiracy, w some story of the Frankfurt School, as opposed to banal processes of selection *and the research itself.* But their actual top-down, funded-by-capital efforts to up-end academia is treated as a natural rebalancing.

Yes. They're propaganda factories, not legal scholarship.

Beckwith’s now deleted post was a reply to this post from Heritage.