I Went on the Internet and I Found This

Mid-March 2026 edition

Top Gear¹ is one of the two greatest TV shows of all time. (The other being Firefly.)

Periodically, during the news segment, Jeremy Clarkson would announce that “I went on the internet and found this ….” Absurdity followed. Consider this new segment to be an homage rather than a copyright violation.

Food

I'm going to make this for a dinner party in a couple of weeks. You can get the recipes here:

Wolfgang Puck’s Chicken Potpie

Spicy Tuna Tartare in Sesame Miso Cones

To make life a little easier, I’m going to try tracking down store-bought savory cones.

War Crimes

My friend of 5 decades Anthony Arend is one of the world’s leading experts on the international law governing the use of force. So when he speaks, we must listen.

Anthony Clark Arend@arenda

The 1907 Hague Convention, specifically provides: “it is especially forbidden . . . To declare that no quarter shall be given.” Hague Regulations, Art 23, d. The U.S. has been a party to this treaty since 1909.

Acyn @Acyn

Hegseth: No quarter, no mercy for our enemies. Yet some in the press just can't stop. More fake news from CNN reports that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war's impact on the strait of hormuz. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.

11:14 PM · Mar 13, 2026 · 154K Views

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Who Should Own Houses

Matthew Yglesias offers a contrarian perspective:

Maybe *all* rental housing should be owned by large institutional investors

AI

Dave Hoffman has a post about publishers—specifically law reviews, but I think it scales up to the industry generally—contracting to constrain the use of generative AI.

Contracting Around Generative Legal Writing

Francine McKenna called it: “Really interesting!”

Books

Cass Sunstein discusses one of my favorite science fiction novels, using it as a jumping off point for assorted philosophical musings:

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Dissing Yale Law School

Eric Allen Conner@eaconner

Then there is something about attending Yale Law School that does irreparable damage to the ability to integrate basic economic concepts into evaluating policy choices. And we need a moratorium on YLS grads in government until we figure out why this is.

Ro Khanna @RoKhanna

I mean I did study economics under Becker & Lucas at Chicago and taught economics for four years as a visiting lecturer at Stanford! But I am not sure the Chicago Economics Department would be proud of that. Ha!

1:56 PM · Mar 14, 2026 · 14.5K Views

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Is Vulgar Rhetoric Appropriate in Judicial Opinions?

Judicial Rhetoric, Artful and Clumsy

Robert P. George@McCormickProf

@jacklgoldsmith Adrian is right on the mark here, in my opinion, Jack. The vulgar rhetoric is not justified. And it's not simply a matter of politesse (or "civility" in the degraded sense of that term that essentially reduces it to mere politessee).

9:25 PM · Mar 14, 2026 · 1.27K Views

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1. I refer, of course, to classic Top Gear when Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May were the hosts. Their successors were execrable, at best.