If a major police mission is to catch us in forbidden consensual transactions, you may not like the kind of people who become cops.
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Regarding Seth Rogen: Some Feelings Ought to Be Hurt
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 3, 2020 | Justice, Sheldon Richman
When actor Seth Rogen, an atheist of Jewish heritage, announced that he no longer supports Israel -- "I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life" -- he was criticized for his apostasy. (Being an atheist does not constitute Jewish heresy, but breaking...
Oh, the Irony!
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 3, 2020 | Blog, Justice
People on the big-government left who are distraught over the condition of black lives in America are logically committed to opposing the police and teachers unions -- whether or not they realize it. That is because the first indispensable steps in the direction of...
Can Lockdown Learning Liberate Male Students?
by Wendy McElroy | Jul 30, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice
The COVID-19 cloud hanging over North American universities may contain a ray of sunlight. It may ease what is called “the boy problem” in education—a significantly reduced number of male students and of male achievement in colleges. As bleak as isolated learning may...
Video: Cops Kill Six Year Old While Attempting To Shoot Unarmed Woman
by Matt Agorist | Jul 28, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice
In December 2017, the Free Thought Project reported on the tragic death of 6-year-old Kameron Prescott whose life was stolen from him when police opened fire on an unarmed woman suspected of stealing a car. In June of 2018, the family of the little boy who was gunned...
How to Care about the Disadvantaged
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 27, 2020 | Blog, Economics, Justice
You may be in the presence of mere virtue-signalers if they: wring their hands about police brutality without ever calling for repeal of all victimless-crime laws, which create a poisonous dynamic between police and public precisely because the conduct being policed...
Prophetic Jewish Anti-Zionists
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 23, 2020 | Blog, Justice
When Peter Beinart, a self-described liberal Zionist, abandoned the two-state resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict and embraced one state with equal rights for all, he quickly drew the ire of orthodox Zionists, some of whom went so far as to describe Beinart as...
A Lost Year – Where Do You Go From Here?
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jul 22, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones
The point of no return may have been reached. The effects of the government-mandated shutdowns due to Covid-19 on businesses—especially small businesses—may not be known for months, even decades, but anyone who is paying attention is beginning to realize we are...