Glenn Harlan Reynolds (born August 27, 1960) is Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, and is known for his American politics blog, Instapundit. Instapundit blog Reynolds' blog got started as a class project in August 2001, when he was teaching a class on Internet law. Much of Instapundit's content consists of links to other sites, often with brief comments. In 2007 network theory researchers who studied blogs as a test case found that Instapundit was the #1 blog for "quickly know[ing] about important stories that propagate over the blogosphere". In 2007, Reynolds called for the assassination of Iranian scientists and clerics. On September 21, 2016, Reynolds suggested on Twitter that any drivers feeling threatened by protesters objecting to the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, should "run them down." The tweet consisted only of the words "Run them down" and a link to a news story about the protestors. The following day, Reynolds defended his tweet, saying, "I wouldn't actually aim for people blocking the road, but I wouldn't stop because I'd fear for my safety, as I think any reasonable person would." Twitter suspended Reynolds' account, but restored it shortly after and told him to delete the tweet in order to be allowed to use Twitter again. The University of Tennessee said it was investigating Reynolds as it did not condone language encouraging violence, but on September 27, 2016, the law school decided that no disciplinary action would be taken. USA Today said that Reynolds had violated its standards and suspended his column for one month. Reynolds issued an apology at its request, writing, "I didn't live up to my own standards, and I didn't meet USA Today's standards". Political views Reynolds is often described as conservative, but holds liberal views on some social issues (such as abortion, the War on Drugs and gay marriage), a combination often called libertarian. He illustrates his philosophy by stating: "I'd like to live in a world in which happily married gay people have closets full of assault weapons to protect their pot." He has been called libertarian. He delivered the keynote speech at a September 2011 conference at the Harvard Law School to discuss a possible Second Constitution of the United States and concluded that the movement for a constitutional convention was a result of having "the worst political class