Law

When, almost a year ago, Derek Chauvin was arrested and charged with murder and manslaughter, I figured that there was essentially no chance that he would be acquitted. That was...

A hearing is underway in a Vancouver, British Columbia courtroom that has far-reaching implications for the ability of the wrongly accused to find justice in Canadian civil courts. Steven Galloway...

On Monday, the Supreme Court ducked an issue that ACLU lawyer Ria Mar called “one of the last sex-based classifications in federal law.” That sex-based classification is the requirement of...

One of the routine falsehoods promoted by critical race theorists holds that federal criminal statutes, particularly those dealing with illicit drugs, were passed with the racist intention of incarcerating disproportionate...

You should read this blog post by Andrew Sullivan. It’s as good an analysis of where our society now stands on race-related issues as any I’ve read. Sullivan is a...

Andrew Sullivan is a mainstream leftist of the old style, so he opposes critical race theory’s overt desire to displace liberalism. That’s understandable, but blinds him to the very idea...

Darryl Cooper, in his essay posted on Glenn Greenwald’s Substack page, has a message for the American Left. It’s a message of unity and common cause:   [Trump supporters] are...

I wrote the following in December, 2020. I post it now as a follow-up and precursor to Darryl Cooper’s essay that was the subject of my previous two pieces.  ...