Shrier writes: The question I get most often—the thing that most interviewers want to know, even when they’re pretending to care about more high-minded things—is: What’s it like to be so hated? I can only assume that’s what some of … Continue reading →
No more, though [hat tip: Gerard Vanderleun at American Digest]. This video is about 20 minutes long, but if you’re pressed for time you can pretty much get the gist of it in the first five minutes: The accompanying article … Continue reading →
University alumni have been increasingly using their power of the purse to put pressure on universities to defend academic freedom of thought and expression. Note the links there to organizations supporting and helping to organize the effort. Here’a another worthy … Continue reading →
Where does Kyle Rittenhouse go to get his reputation back [see *NOTE below]? There’s a group of Arizona State students who have discovered that Kyle Rittenhouse was enrolled in some online ASU courses, and are incensed by this terribly distressing … Continue reading →
A lot of people thought Kyle Rittenhouse shouldn’t give an interview at all at this point, and especially not to Tucker Carlson. After all, Carlson has gotten a lot of flak for his supposed extremism and in particular for his … Continue reading →
For quite a while I’ve been featuring videos with attorney Robert Barnes, and especially the ones about the Rittenhouse case. He’s not only thorough, he’s also lively and interesting. In addition, it turns out that he’s been about 97% correct … Continue reading →
For me, it started with the reporting on the Jacob Blake shooting. As a blogger, I have to cover these things in depth, and that means that I have to read a lot about each case right from the start … Continue reading →
The photos and video tell the tale of Kyle Rittenhouse’s relief, and the extraordinary stress under which he’s been struggling for over a year: The jackals won’t give up. But it’s time to celebrate and be thankful that justice prevailed, … Continue reading →
I don’t usually write all-caps headlines, but this news deserves it. The relief I feel is tremendous that the jury did the right thing. And that relief that I feel is very small in comparison to how Kyle and his … Continue reading →
It’s waiting time, and I’ve been reflecting on the big picture of where we are right now. I don’t think there’s any way the Rittenhouse trial would have occurred ten years ago and certainly not twenty years ago, and the … Continue reading →
Otherwise known as parents who might have opposed him in some way: The president, or possibly his father, appears to have kept a dossier on 47 parents who dared to speak out against his policies at school board meetings — … Continue reading →
I probably will write more about this over the weekend, because I need more information on it in order to say something more intelligent about it. But I’ve been appalled at two things recently in the Rittenhouse trial – in … Continue reading →