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• It’s like The Swamp wants me to support Matt Gaetz for AG:

To borrow Churchill’s phrase from 1945, the problem with our government today is that “our civil servants are no longer civil and no longer servants.”

• Before the election I predicted that if Trump won it would cause a crisis on the left and inside the Democratic Party, and the signs are all around us that leftists are cracking up and losing their minds. One notable example: Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks is one of the most obnoxious and lightweight leftists of the online world these days, so when he sends out a note like this, it means the grief counseling isn’t working:

• Celebrating the leftist meltdown after the election is going to yield schadenfreude for months to come:

• Feel good story of the day:

Boston U Suspends Admissions to Humanities and Social Science Ph.D. Programs

Boston University isn’t accepting new Ph.D. students for the next academic year in a dozen humanities and social sciences programs, including philosophy, English and history.

The university didn’t announce this in a news release and has not fully explained the move. In an email obtained by Inside Higher Ed on condition of anonymity, the heads of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), in which all the affected programs are located, pointed to increased costs associated with the union contract that graduate student workers won after their historic, nearly seven-month strike ended in October.

This story is doubly fun because if you believe, as I do, in the “Elite Overproduction Thesis,” then many graduate programs in the humanities and social sciences need to be cut back or eliminated. This story has the added benefit of having the cuts result from unionization. Elite universities as union-busters! And Trump hasn’t even taken office yet.

• Truth bomb:

• To paraphrase the famous line of Horace, you can try to expel nature with a pitchfork, but it will come back at you through the window—or perhaps the Miss Universe pageant. In any case, nature is healing:

• OMG, yes!  After all, if RFK Jr can serve in the Trump Administration. . .

• Okay, this one is pure mischief, but works on multiple levels (if you know the original
“distracted boyfriend” meme):


• Note to readers: When next you hear from me it will be from Italy, where I will be for the next three weeks, attending a couple of academic conferences along with my partners in crime John Yoo and “Lucretia” (who lived in Rome for an extended period a long while back). So stock up on pasta for the next couple podcasts.