A Betrayal of Language

Note: this post has an addendum as of Friday evening, 10/16/20. Words have meaning. “Antelope waddle towards the shiny Giant Can Opener” is a sentence likely never before constructed, but it’s intelligible to you (albeit oddly fantastic) because we share a language—21st century American English. The fact that words have meaning isn’t an interesting footnote,…

Freedom to Believe + Freedom to Act

NOTE: this’ll be a bit nerdy, and you’d likely benefit from reading the totality of Gorsuch’s opinions in Bostock (majority opinion) and Espinoza (concurring opinion). But hopefully I write this clearly enough for you to benefit from reading this alone. tl;dr while some are unhappy with the outcome of Bostock insofar as it seems to…