Just when I believe this year, this country, this society, our species can’t possibly get any crazier……. We are pulling ourselves apart at the seams. And perhaps that’s OK in the end. From both primary “sides” I hear the calls for unity. Calls for the “Good Old Days”...
Intervention
War on the Suburbs: How HUD’s Housing Policies Became a Weapon for Social Change
The next time Democrats come into office nationally, they’re coming straight for your town, hellbent on destruction in the name of equality.
Myths and Hoaxes of Sexual Abuse Stoke ‘Politically Useful’ Fear
"[S]ince love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."—Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513 For those who want to control a population, fear is more useful than love and far easier to elicit. A...
Want Less Police Brutality? Write Less Laws
One of the most perplexing displays of cognitive dissonance this year is the strong support for a large state can be found within the various protest movements that are targeting the issue of law enforcement misconduct. Logically, groups opposing police misconduct...
7/10/20 Bas Spliet on the American War that Destroyed Libya
Bas Spliet is back to discuss the disaster that was America and the UN's involvement in Libya after 2011's Arab Spring. Spliet reminds us that Libya was once one of the wealthiest countries in north Africa, ruled by a secular dictator with relative liberty and...
News Roundup 7/13/20
US News Trump commutes Roger Stone’s prison sentence. [Link] Bail reforms that promote algorithms and risk matrices do not correct for racial disparities. [Link] A Super PAC with ties to John Bolton has spent over $300,000 in a congressional race in Maine. The PAC is...
With Only Four Exceptions, Senate Republicans Vote to Remain in Afghanistan
With Americans growing ever more divided amid national upheaval over racial inequality and a global pandemic, it has perhaps never been more apparent that the United States has no business trying to fix the world with so many problems on our own doorstep. Whatever his...
News Roundup 6/29/20
US News Boston bans the use of facial recognition. [Link] Eight of the Minneapolis police officers to be fired since 2006, six have gotten their jobs reinstated after intervention from the police union. [Link] Senator Rand Paul is leading an effort to restrict police...
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