Or do you just think you do? [The following is a repeat of a previous post, somewhat edited.] I thought I remembered it pretty well. But when I started to research the subject, the first articles I read puzzled me … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I thought this post from 2013 could bear repeating, with some edits and additions to bring it up to date.] I’ve written before about Allan Bloom’s masterful The Closing of the American Mind, published in 1987, here and here. … Continue reading →
And Clarence Thomas sided with the 5-3 majority (Gorsuch did not participate; i assume because he never heard the oral arguments, but I haven’t seen the reason stated): This decision by Justice Kagan is a major victory for voting rights … Continue reading →
[See UPDATE below.] What could possibly go wrong? When I read this HuffPo piece that Garland wrote, I kept looking for the angle. No, it wasn’t published on April Fool’s Day. No, it doesn’t seem to be satirical or a … Continue reading →
Here’s how the situation began: [Officer] Bardes and a Florida Highway Patrol trooper were at the scene of a car crash when Strother’s Toyota Camry swerved and drove along the left shoulder at what seemed to be at least 100 … Continue reading →
It’s okay if it’s against a black conservative, as Senator Tim Scott demonstrated yesterday:
Continue reading →{NOTE: This is a slightly-edited version of a previous post.] I have some trouble with the hagiography of Martin Luther King. Yes, he was a great man who did a great thing for which he should be duly honored. He … Continue reading →
Most of the accused officers who were put on trial in the Freddie Gray case are suing the prosecution and the sheriff: A federal judge is allowing key parts of a lawsuit against Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby, brought … Continue reading →
I haven’t yet read Heather Mac Donald’s City Journal article on the Chicago torture case and how it relates to the larger culture, but a lot of people have recommended it. I’ve only had time to very briefly skim it, … Continue reading →
The confirmation hearings of Trump appointees—as the WSJ delicately puts it—are “likely to generate significant resistance from Democrats.” In Jeff Sessions’ case, some ancient accusations against him of being a racist have been trotted out, and he is denying them: … Continue reading →
Not. This isn’t just a case of political correctness run amok. It’s a case of academic censorship in the name of race redress, and of a purposeful historic revisionism and willful drive towards ignorance. But isn’t that where the left … Continue reading →
And it’s not even subtle about it. An error of this magnitude and type is no “error’ at all: A CBS Radio News report on the horrific black-on-white torture case in Chicago falsely implied that the victim was black and … Continue reading →