A collection of 68 posts
Thirty-four years after the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, the conviction of Hamid Noury in Sweden has been a victory for accountability and for the truth.
Gender critical feminists are among those who have been excluded from Twitter for years. The time is right for a correction.
The version of CRT that I studied in the 1990s offered a useful critique of American institutions—rather than a moral condemnation of American souls.
Polygamy is a criminal offense throughout the Western world. Would making it legal be progress?
Both the right to freedom of expression and the institution of trial by jury came under intense scrutiny just three weeks after Raab’s article, when a Bristol jury acquitted four young people of criminal damage, even though they had all admitted tearing down a city centre statue.
Our society cannot and will not survive a polity that permits armed children to walk the streets and kill with impunity.
They’re embarking on an experiment that I think will ultimately fail and will ultimately harm children, but it’s an experiment that they’re entitled to embark on.
The difference between the civil rights movement and CRT isn’t one of degree or shade. It’s foundational.
Under this policy, declaring one’s pronouns is required when people introduce themselves in court whether they present in keeping with their biological sex or not.
The ranks of this new ruling class are refreshed by immigrant academics who come to understand themselves in the way progressivism understands them: as minorities who can also act victim-like if they want—a precious endowment in the cultural academic market.
Relegating police training to outside universities smacks of duty shirking; it should be the responsibility (and purview) of police departments to train law enforcement professionals effectively.
Depp has found that using the law to defend your reputation is a very expensive way of shattering it.
The time has come for a serious conversation about police brutality, criminal justice reform, and how political polarization prevents progress.
Moreover, proponents of lowering the bar aren’t always acting on social-justice motives.
Lawyers like to joke that a ruling is probably correct if both sides are equally upset by it.