Glenn Harlan Reynolds

InstaPundit turned 25 on Saturday. I didn’t mean for it to last this long. When I started InstaPundit, it was just the latest in a series of Internet ventures, ranging from Internet radio stations, and bands, on MP3.com, to RaveRights.com, an electronic music civil-rights site I set up because the DEA was at the time prosecuting raves under the so-called “crack house law,” which criminalizes owning or operating a building for the purpose of taking drugs.

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The Overton Window is moving. I remember a while back when calls to repeal the Seventeenth Amendment, which provides for popular election of Senators, were rare, the sort of thing a provocateur — Jim Bennett is one — might throw out at a cocktail party. Like a lot of Jim Bennett’s ideas — he started the first private rocket company, the American Rocket Company, back in the 1980s — it may have been ahead of its time. But maybe its time is coming.

She says this like it’s a bad thing: Well, she’s a University of Michigan law professor who is, even by law professor standards, far gone into Trump Derangement Syndrome. But why wouldn’t we want a president to “clean house?” Do we want a dirty house? As for our professional, independent civil service — it is to laugh. The civil service isn’t independent: It happily does the bidding of Democratic presidents.

A decade ago, it was all “Russians! Under my bed!” everywhere. Those Russians were fictional, for the most part, part of a campaign organized by Clintonistas to explain away her humiliating defeat, and magnified by various Deep State operatives into an effort to discredit and weaken the first Trump term.

Today, Elon Musk took his privately owned SpaceX public. The result was the first $2 trillion market valuation on any company, ever. What’s more, unlike other most huge companies that have made people rich, like Google and Facebook, it’s a company that deals in atoms, not bits. (Amazon is sort of in-between, really). If Facebook and Google are fairy dust, SpaceX is heavy metal. It builds big things that sometimes blow up.

It starts with the lamentation of their women: Things are going badly on redistricting, and Democrats are losing it. Washington Examiner@dcexaminer OPINION: Civil rights cosplayer Justin Pearson melts down over Tennessee ‘color-blind’ redistricting trib.al Justin Pearson throws tantrum after Tennessee 'color-blind' redistricting vote 11:16 PM · May 7, 2026 · 44.3K Views 231 Replies · 106 Reposts · 621 Likes But it’s more than that.

The attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran are going almost comically well. Where before Iranian leaders used to mock the “Great Satan” as a pitiful helpless giant, now most of them are dead. The ones left alive are, well, comically begging “don’t drone me, bro!” like Iranian President Mazoud Pezeshkian, hilariously pictured below. Really, I’m nobody. Not worth wasting a drone on! Nobody at all! (Source).

Or maybe the Gordian Knot November 4, 1979 — almost 47 years ago — Iran seized the American embassy in Tehran and held its staff hostage. Ever since then, American presidents have struggled with what to do. Jimmy Carter temporized for many months, even as ABC’s newly created Nightline — a nighttime news show created specially to cover the hostage crisis — opened every night with “America held hostage, day XXX.” His wife, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, finally prodded him to do something.

In 2005, Ray Kurzweil wrote The Singularity is Near, which I reviewed in the Wall Street Journal here. In 2024, Kurzweil followed up with The Singularity is Nearer. (The two books are available as a set.) In 2005 I wrote: The Singularity is a term coined by futurists to describe that point in time when technological progress has so transformed society that predictions made in the present day, already a hit-and-miss affair, are likely to be very, very wide of the mark.