As a one-time international student who watched the last few months in horror, I found this passage moving. And it’s doubly meaningful that it’s a Reagan appointee.

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

A minor, sartorial point but it annoys me that Melania keeps wearing the Dior bar jacket. Christian Dior sought to channel optimism and honor his sister in his fashion as she’d returned from Nazi camps as a member of the resistance. You might even say it’s an antifascist piece of fashion history.

Researching Father Hesburgh (Notre Dame) for my book and this stopped me dead in my tracks. hesburgh.nd.edu/fr-teds-life...

“Girls are fighting”… “Karen”… why do we have to give this a misogynistic twang? Doubly so when this is a moment that’s so clearly about men and their rage…