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"Silly" Arguments Against Hate Crime Laws?
Responding to what I take to include my criticisms of laws defining “hate crimes” against the homeless, Ordinary Gentleman Will writes: Obviously, intent matters. If someone is attacking people of a p… more →
Upturned Earth
"Silly" Arguments Against Hate Crime Laws?
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John Schwenkler wrote 6 months ago: Responding to what I take to include my criticisms of laws defining “hate crimes” against the homele … more →
Torture and Bad Faith, ctd.
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John Schwenkler wrote 6 months ago: A lengthy e-mail exchange with a reader who took issue with the tone of this post and some others ma … more →
Fairness Claims vs. Justice Claims vs. Immigration Policy
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JL Wall wrote 6 months ago: by JL Wall Last week, a Northwestern University Police Department officer pulled over a man on suspi … more →
Prosecute Them!
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John Schwenkler wrote 7 months ago: What Michael Ratner said: Torture is torture and all the legal window dressing in the world cannot h … more →
“Activist” Judges
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John Schwenkler wrote 7 months ago: E.D. Kain objects to Ed Whelan’s complaints about the “lawless judicial attack on traditional marria … more →
Auf wiedersehen, Bravo!
Nic wrote 7 months ago: Finally, after months of legal wrangling between NBC Universal, The Weinstein Co., and Lifetime Netw … more →
Food Safety and Small Farms: A Dilemma
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John Schwenkler wrote 8 months ago: Over the weekend, Tim Carney and Rod Dreher both had very nice columns on the controversy over the p … more →
Whatever, Mo
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Nic wrote 9 months ago: I wish that Maureen Dowd was a dude, so that I could kick her in the junk. She’s always saying … more →
You learn something new every day
Nic wrote 9 months ago: I hate it when The New York Times uses terms without definition, as if anybody should automatically … more →
“Libertarian Progressivism”
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John Schwenkler wrote 10 months ago: Like Ross and Will Wilkinson, I think there’s a ton to be said for Edward Glaeser’s case for “small- … more →
Mitch Daniels
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John Schwenkler wrote 1 year ago: If both Reihan and Virginia Postrel like him that much, then he’s got to be doing something ri … more →
Stimulate Me, Baby!
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John Schwenkler wrote 1 year ago: Like Megan McArdle, I thought Ryan Avent was way too hard on David Brooks’s latest column, whi … more →
Elizabeth Dole, WTF?
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Nic wrote 1 year ago: Apparently being decent in a close race is just too much to ask of North Carolina Senator Elizabeth … more →
The world outside my bubble
Nic wrote 1 year ago: This presidential election is so dramatic and action-filled that I really haven’t been paying … more →
From the Bookshelf: Norman Mailer on Federal Authority
John Schwenkler wrote 1 year ago: From “An Instrument for the City”, reprinted in Existential Errands and originally publi … more →
Secession Linkage
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John Schwenkler wrote 1 year ago: Sarah Palin got it in the news, but I’ve actually been working for the past couple of weeks on … more →
Good news!
Nic wrote 1 year ago: Yay! A judge announced that Imam Mohammad Qatanani, a local Muslim cleric, will be allowed to stay i … more →
Don't just sit there! Sit there and do something!
John Schwenkler wrote 1 year ago: Sign the petition to reinstate the Lewis sisters’ “All-American vegetable stand”, … more →
Against Universal Preschool
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John Schwenkler wrote 1 year ago: Via H&R, I see that a couple of Reason Foundation folks have a terrific op-ed in the WSJ arguing … more →
