Justice
You Might Be an Anti-Semite
Kenneth Marcus, head of the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, is the Jeff Foxworthy of the American Israelist movement. When he says, "If you do X (call Israel a racist endeavor, express sympathy for Palestinian self-determination, support BDS, and so...
TGIF: Are We Sure It Can’t Happen Here?
One runs a risk whenever one cites the 20th century’s great terror states while discussing current ominous developments in the western democracies. Apparent comparisons of the United States or western and central European countries to Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia...
TGIF: Trump, Spinoza, and the Palestinian Refugees
As though we had any ground for doubt heretofore, we can now clearly see -- in light of his end to $350 million in annual humanitarian assistance to five million Palestinian refugees -- Donald Trump’s cruel and spiteful nature. It was not enough to stack the so-called...
Woman Dies In Jail Over Unpaid Traffic Tickets, Begging for Help as Officers Ignored Her
Mineral County, NV — (RT) Unpaid traffic tickets saw a Nevada woman in jail, where she began to suffer drug withdrawals and seizures. Days later she was dead, after being denied medical care. A report by state investigators, published this week and revealed by the...
Tyranny and Cooperation
Social phenomena -- both good and bad -- cannot happen without cooperation -- that is, without people doing things uncoerced. This is especially clear with bad phenomena. How much havoc could a Stalin, a Hitler, a Mao Zedong, or a Pol Pot wreak alone or with just a...
How to Read a SCOTUS Opinion Ep. 93
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsTmGHJEqE In this episode, I welcome any new listeners and go back to basics by teaching everyone how I read SCOTUS opinions. For demonstration purposes, I use Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005), a case that I've worked with in several...
TGIF: Anti-Israelism and Anti-Semitism: The Invidious Conflation
I and others have warned that enactment of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act now before Congress would threaten free speech and free inquiry on America’s college campuses and beyond. As I’ve explained, this bill incorporates a conception -- a "definition" plus potential...
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