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Unyielding
Babylon Bee to Cease Publication?
No, of course not. It looks likely to continue its steady stream of satire for a long time. After all,…
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Law and Government
Facts on Crime and Punishment Contradict the Progressive Narrative
Over the past week, we’ve heard the usual low drumbeat of violent crime, most of it fairly unremarkable by U.S.…
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Politics
The Lessons of the Kansas Referendum
Here I lauded the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs case. I did so because Roe vs. Wade was badly…
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Politics
A Word on Our ‘Betters,’ The Woke
Last time, in discussing the subculture of the “woke,” I mentioned that the very concept of wokeness and the woke…
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Politics
Joe Biden, Divider-in-Chief
A week ago, President Biden read a speech in Philadelphia. It was the exact opposite of the speech he should…
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Law and Government
Police Reform: ‘Early Warning’ Systems
This post follows this one in which I outlined modest steps toward reforming police behavior and police departments. In the…
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Education
How ‘Fine’ are the Boys Actually Doing?
One way to avoid addressing a problem is to pretend it doesn’t exist. Another is to deflect attention from that…
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Social Issues
At Slate, it’s Back to the 70’s
It’s like something from a time capsule buried in the 1970s and recently unsealed. Out of nowhere, Slate published this…
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Economy
Energy Transition? It’s a ‘Delusion’
In September of 2018, then President Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly. Among other messages, he told Germany that…
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Law and Government
An Earthquake Rattles the American Academy of Pediatrics
I wrote recently about my optimism that tort law would provide, in the not distant future, a corrective to the…
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Foreign Affairs
Two Short Takes
The F-Word Comes to Sri Lanka What F-word is that? Famine. As I reported previously, in May of 2021, the…
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Law and Government
The Lawyers are Coming for Trans Medicine
The lawyers who make up the plaintiffs’ tort bar are always on the lookout for a payday and the bigger…
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Education
Portland Schools: Taking Down Western Civilization One Straight Kid at a Time
The British are fast backing off the idea that giving puberty blocking medications to adolescents is a harmless exercise. Much…
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Education
A Few Questions for the Woke
One of the salient features of wokeism, as applied to critical race theory, is its careful refusal to answer obvious…
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Law and Government
Stirrings of Awareness on the Left?
Are liberal publications starting to “get it?” I see a glimmer of hope, faint, but nevertheless there. Recently, the New…
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Law and Government
European Union Law More Conservative Than American Law In Many Ways
By Kursat Pekgoz (Robert Franklin’s guest blogger) There seems to exist a widespread, almost caricatural belief among Anglo-American conservatives that…
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Sports and Culture
Can Anyone Escape Cancelation?
There’s another problem with the removal of the statue of Thomas Jefferson by the New York City Council beyond its…
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Media
So Little Consistency on Race
The current dominant narrative on race has me confused. According to much of the MSM and at least one congresswoman,…
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Law and Government
Taking Down CRT One Fact at a Time
This excellent article is very worth the read. The writer, Samuel Kronen takes on the ideas of those like Ibram…
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Law and Government
Of Jussie Smollett and BLM
Among other services to the community, the Jussie Smollett case teaches us more about Black Lives Matter, which is good. …
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Economy
Study: Lockdowns Had No Impact on COVID Mortality
In January of 2020, revelations about COVID-19 began gaining widespread attention. At the time, the virus was little known to…
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Social Issues
Progressive Organizations Standing on Their Own Ears
Two months ago, Netflix canned almost 300 employees. The action came with a tweet from the streaming and production company’s…
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Unyielding
The Denigration of Men, Fatherlessness and Mass Slayings
Not one of them was guilty of anything; but they belonged to a class that was guilty of everything. –…
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Unyielding
Green Movement Pushes Sri Lanka Back to the Future
Green activists and their co-conspirators in NGOs and governments continue their policies that immiserate and further impoverish the poor and…
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Education
Roland Fryer Pays the Price for Blasphemy
The woke Left never hesitates to instruct the rest of us about “how to be an antiracist,” and it turns…
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Business
Dutch Farmers and Fishermen Protest Green Edicts
My latest two posts have been about, first, the uprising in Sri Lanka against the government of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa…
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Foreign Affairs
Good News! EU Calls Nuclear Energy ‘Green’
My mission statement on this blog includes the promise to report “the good news.” I confess to having done little…
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Education
Joshua Katz’s Scalp Hangs from the Woke Belt
Do I detect a developing trend? First it was Harvard’s Roland Fryer, now it’s Princeton’s Joshua Katz. The trend, if…
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Law and Government
Depp vs. Heard and the Truth About Domestic Violence
“Tell the world, Johnny, tell them: ‘I, Johnny Depp, a man, I’m a victim too of domestic violence,’ and see…
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Social Issues
Fatherlessness: Still a Mystery to so Many
Twice recently, I’ve made the point that, as much as we weep into our hankies about the problem of fatherlessness,…
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Economy
California’s Green Decline
This post’s companion piece on the green disaster in Sri Lanka is here. As in Sri Lanka, California elites attack…
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Education
Biden DOE Proposals Would Violate Existing Law
R.P. McMurphy: She ain’t honest. Dr. Spivey: Now look, Miss Ratched’s one of the finest nurses we have in this…
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