February 24, 2020

The Trayvon Hoax and the truth

Seven years ago, a six-person jury acquitted George Zimmerman of all charges related to the death of Trayvon Martin.  Since then, Martin's death has become a symbol of racial injustice and a rallying cry for Black Lives Matter. ...

February 11, 2019

The Women’s March, Farrakhan, and Black Anti-Semitism

Last month on “The View,” Meghan McCain confronted women’s march co-president Tamika Mallory over her relationship with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Mallory had attended Farrakhan’s recent “Saviour’s Day...

March 10, 2018

Joe Patrice Defends Fascist Thugs

Last year, Joe Patrice took to his blog at "Above The Law" to call for the firing of a pair of tenured professors who wrote an op-ed that offended him.  This week, Patrice used his blog to defend a group of thu...

March 3, 2018

The assault weapons ban of 2018

Following the massacre in Parkland, Florida, Representatives Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and David Cicilline (D-R.I.) introduced their version of an assault weapons ban.  The bill would ban the sale of "assault weapons" and "hig...

February 19, 2018

Why Democrats should embrace Trump's DACA framework

On Thursday February 15, all of the immigration proposals put to a vote in the U.S. Senate failed to garner the necessary sixty votes.  Along with a bill modeled after the president's immigration framework, the Senate voted on two other...

January 31, 2018

Why Democrats should embrace Trump’s DACA framework

Last Thursday, Trump released his proposed framework for a compromise on DACA. The framework offers DACA-eligible illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship, in exchange for border security and a number of changes to U.S immigration law. Democrat...

December 14, 2017

Laurier University and the Transsexual Pronoun War

Wilfrid Laurier teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd, never anticipated she would be at the center of a media firestorm. Earlier this year, Shepherd showed her class an excerpt of a panel discussion on gender neutral pronouns and Canadian anti-discrim...

November 20, 2017

Peter Beinart's Virtue Signal

Recently, Peter Beinart took to the pages of the Atlantic to make a confession. Beinart confessed that he -- yes he -- had benefited from affirmative action. The New Republic, he claimed, had a policy of favoring well-educated white men from ivy leag...

November 17, 2017

Most of Moore's accusers well above the age of consent

Of the three women involved in the Washington Post's bombshell accusations against Roy Moore, fourteen-year-old Leigh Corfman, was below Alabama's age of consent.  Two of the other three were seventeen, and one was eightee...

October 26, 2017

Kevin D. Williamson and the Lumpen-proletariat

Last week, National Review contributor Kevin D. Williamson penned a lengthy attack on what he called the “white minstrel show.” Topped by a photo of a grinning Trump, the column began by discussing the phenomenon of “acting white....

October 18, 2017

The Evolutionary Origins of Human Morality

In February 2008, Jonathan Haidt gave a TED Talk on the psychological differences between liberals and conservatives. The talk made Haidt America’s most well-known moral psychologist. Haidt would go on to found Heterodox Academy, an organizatio...

October 9, 2017

Beware copycats

James Paddock meticulously planned his Las Vegas attack, spending years stockpiling firearms and ammunition and scouting a number of potential targets before settling on the "Route 91 music festival." On September 28, Paddock checked int...

September 3, 2017

Joe Patrice calls for Amy Wax’s firing

For those who doubted that political correctness posed a threat to free speech on campus, Above the Law contributor Joe Patrice just gave you reason to believe. Patrice called for the firing of two tenured professors who coauthored an op-ed in the Ph...

August 18, 2017

Left-wing deplorables

The Charlottesville brawl, which culminated in vehicular homicide, has brought the Alt-Right to national attention again.  Make no mistake: the people marching in Charlottesville were genuine deplorables.  Vice news interviewed one of ...

August 7, 2017

Promoting 'good' racial discrimination

Last week, the New York Times alerted its readers to a Justice Department plan to investigate whether colleges are discriminating against white applicants.  The New York Times obtained a leaked memo that asked for lawyer...

July 20, 2017

Climate realism vs. climate alarmism

On June 9, New York magazine published an article titled "The Uninhabitable Earth."  The article predicted flooding, famine, economic collapse, and death from direct heat as a consequence of global warming.  Wild stuff. ...

June 23, 2017

The 'Gatekeeper' theory

The Mother Jones article linking Dave Rubin to the Alt Right drew criticism from across the political spectrum.  However, a number of prominent Rubin critics rushed to defend the article.  Chief among them was blogger and social m...

June 20, 2017

Mother Jones vs. Dave Rubin

  Former TYT commentator Dave Rubin has been embroiled in a twitter feud with Mother Jones journalist Josh Harkinson following the release of Harkinson's exposé on crowd-funded far-right media. Dave Rubin identifies as...

May 28, 2017

The dishonest rhetoric of gun control advocates

Speaking at a conference on gun violence, public health expert Lawrence Wallack began by informing his audience that, “just in the last decade, we've had 300,000 gun deaths.” “That's about the size of Stockton, California...

April 20, 2017

Berzerkeley brawl

Last Saturday, a violent brawl broke out in Berkeley, California for the third time this year.  The "antifa" attempted to break up a pro-free speech rally organized by Bay Area activist Rich Black.  Previously, antifa succeeded in...

April 7, 2017

Mike Pence vs. Rebecca Watson

In 2013, atheist blogger Rebecca Watson complained about her experience at an atheist convention.  Specifically, she complained that after a night of drinking, a male convention-goer invited her back to his hotel room. "Don't take th...

March 23, 2017

Why Get Out is bad for the black community

Earlier this month, I went to see the movie Get Out with a pair of friends.  Film critics have almost universally praised the movie – it earned a 99% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes – and both of my friends liked it.  ...

December 11, 2016

Conservatism's fiefdom problem

Four years ago, Jamie Glazov asked me if political correctness existed on the right, if conservatives considered certain topics off limits to discussion. I told him no, which, at the time, seemed mostly true. Both conservatives and liberals hold cert...

November 26, 2016

Whither gun control?

Pseudonymous blogger Publius famously called the 2016 election a “Flight 93 election” for conservatives.  However, the 2016 presidential election appears to have been a “Flight 93” election for another group: gun control ...

November 11, 2016

Conservative intellectuals and Trump

During the primaries, most conservative outlets opposed Donald Trump.  National Review devoted an entire issue to attacking Trump.  RedState became a NeverTrump publication.  Even after Trump won the nomination, the conservat...

November 10, 2016

America voted for national sovereignty and the rule of law

On Tuesday night, Donald Trump shocked the political world.  He beat the polls, he beat the pundits, and he won the presidency. From the beginning, Donald Trump placed immigration at the center of his campaign.  He defeated a deep and ta...

October 31, 2016

Affirmative Action, Immigration and the Politics of Racial Solidarity

In his “An open letter to cuckservatives”, Jared Taylor wrote, “Why do you evoke Martin Luther King when you call for a “colorblind” America? You know he wanted quotas for blacks. You evoke King because you think he...

September 24, 2016

Mainstream Conservatives and the Alt-Right

Recently, Jonah Goldberg and Hugh Hewitt debated how conservatives should respond to the rise of the so-called “alternative right.” The “alternative right,” is a disorganized movement centered on message boards, blogs, and soc...

June 1, 2016

Stupid Bill Tricks

Last weekend Bill Kristol tweeted that an independent candidate would be entering the presidential race, “Just a heads up over this holiday weekend: There will be an independent candidate -- an impressive one, with a strong team and a real chan...

May 23, 2016

Is America becoming a nation of strangers?

“Why can't we have a home?” asked Ann Coulter, in a recent BBC interview. It might be more accurate to say that because of immigration, America no longer feels like home to Ann Coulter.  Coulter's opposition to immigration...

May 11, 2016

Trump supporters are not who the media told you they were

Throughout this election cycle, journalists and pundits characterized Trump supporters as “working-class,” less educated, and lower-income.  While the average Trump supporter is less educated and less well off than the average Kasich...

May 5, 2016

Was the ACLU always this crazy?

The Maryland ACLU has released a statement that reads like it came from the extremist National Lawyers Guild.  A fourteen-year-old black child, Dedric Colvin, was shot and wounded by police while carrying a BB pistol.  Police saw the teen c...

April 23, 2016

The Reality Gap

Polling has consistently shown that Donald Trump is the least electable candidate in the Republican field. At present Donald Trump trails Hillary Clinton by 9.3 points in polls of general election voters, and this gap has remained remarkably constant...

April 4, 2016

Is Donald Trump a true alpha male?

In the past, Trump supporters have attempted to downplay Donald Trump's struggles with female voters by claiming that his strong alpha-male persona will appeal to them.  But is Trump truly an alpha male? On the surface, the easy answer wo...

April 2, 2016

Trump's charm

Chris Matthews fixed his gaze on Donald Trump.  “Do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no, as a principle?” “The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment,” Donald replied. Matthews probed, ...

March 5, 2016

Donald Trump is conservative fool’s gold

Howard Kurtz has a new article detailing Donald J. Trump's general election strategy.  As Kurtz describes it, Trump adopted a general election strategy from the beginning.  By taking a hard line on immigration, he was able to triangulat...

February 28, 2016

Why Kasich and not Rubio

Many Republicans are urging John Kasich to drop out of the race in order to consolidate the “anti-Trump” vote behind Marco Rubio. These Republican pundits should reconsider. There are a number of reasons to believe that Kasich is better e...

February 13, 2016

Why the GOP needs to pay attention

Last month, National Review released its “Trump issue,” or rather its anti-Trump issue.  RedState has been running nonstop anti-Trump coverage, to the satisfaction of its readership.  Undoubtedly, Trump inspires great animosity;...

January 11, 2016

Have China's financial chickens come home to roost?

Last Thursday, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 2% in response to bad economic news from China.  Before trading was suspended, the Shanghai stock market index fell by 7%, in response to news of slowing growth.  According to reports fil...

January 5, 2016

Obama to host 'town hall' meeting on gun control

Yesterday, CNN announced that it would be airing a live town hall meeting on gun control, hosted by President Obama.  The town hall will be one hour long, beginning at 7pm eastern time.  As described by CNN itself: “President Bar...

September 30, 2015

Have Republicans forgotten how to win?

After the second presidential debate, a family member remarked to me that he thought the Republicans had a “deep bench” this time around.  I beg to differ.  While many talented and intelligent people took the stage at the presid...

August 12, 2015

The value of Colin Flaherty

Reform is an ambiguous word, open to interpretation.  Groups that support amnesty for illegal aliens and groups opposed to amnesty for illegal aliens both claim to support reform; one man’s reform is another man’s folly. This Sept...

April 30, 2015

The paradox of 'black power'

Yesterday Rick Moran blogged about an article in Salon by Benji Hart.  While the article did not specifically endorse the Baltimore riots (or not-endorse them), it defended rioting as a means to an end.  According to Hart, riots are a legit...

March 1, 2015

Putin Makes it hard on his Defenders

Early Saturday morning, unknown gunman murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. Nemtsov, a vocal opponent of Putin, planned to speak at an anti-Putin rally on Saturday. Putin had previously castigated his opposition as traitors and fifth col...

February 12, 2015

Marquette seeks to fire Conservative Professor

Last month, Marquette informed conservative political science professor John McAdams that they were beginning the process of revoking his tenure and dismissing him from the faculty. McAdams had used his blog to publicize claims made by a student abou...

February 7, 2015

Was the 'Mattress Girl' Lying?

On February 3, Cathy Young of the Daily Beast published a long piece delving into the background of Emma Sulkowicz’s (mattress girl’s) rape allegations against fellow Columbia student Jean-Paul Nungesser. Since September of 2014, Sulkowic...

January 10, 2015

The Palestinian Endgame

Undoubtedly the most vexing question in the Israel/Palestine conflict concerns the issue of refugees; that is, the Arab refugees from the 1948 war. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has described the right to return as an individual right, one that...

December 21, 2014

Amanda Marcotte: The face of rape hysteria

The past few weeks have been unkind to the social justice warriors battling “rape culture” on our campuses. It started out well for the Social Justice Warriors; after Rolling Stone published their exposé on Rape at UVA, protes...

December 16, 2014

Lena Dunham responds to Breitbart

In her recent published memoir, Lena Dunham claimed that a college Republican named “Barry” raped her.  Her rapist wore purple cowboy boots, sported a handlebar mustache, had a voice that went “Barry White low,” and hoste...

December 12, 2014

UVA Rape Story Update 2

This past Wednesday, Washington Post reporter T. Rees Shapiro published an article that significantly undermined the account of the UVA “rape” published in Rolling Stone magazine, casting serious doubt on the credibility of the accuser. ...

December 11, 2014

False Rape Allegations and 'Sexual Decorum'

“Sexual liberation is having a nervous breakdown on college campuses. Conservatives should be cheering on its collapse; instead they sometimes sound as if they want to administer the victim smelling salts.” So begins Heather MacDonald...

December 10, 2014

UVA Rape Scandal Update

On December 5, Rolling Stone issued a quasi-retraction on the UVA rape accusation.  Turns out, the ritual gang-rape they reported as truth might never have happened.  Rolling Stone writer Sabrina Erdely alleged that, in September 2012, frat...

December 6, 2014

<em>Rolling Stone</em> Backs Away from Gang-rape Allegations

On November 19th of this year, Rolling Stone magazine published an account of a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, (also known as UVA). The Rolling Stone piece tells the story of a naïve freshman girl lured to a f...

November 29, 2014

'Obsolete' Warthogs head to Iraq

This fall, the Air Force announced that A-10 Thunderbolt ground attack jets would join the fight against ISIS in Iraq. Earlier in the year, the Air Force sought to scrap the entire fleet of A-10’s, citing budgetary concerns and technical obsole...

November 28, 2014

Sexy Lady Shirts and STEM Careers

In 2012, Naval historians positively identified the sailor and nurse in the iconic photo V-J Day in Times Square. Photographer Alfred Eisenstadt was in Times Square when America’s Victory over Japan was announced. Eisenstadt witnessed a sailor ...

November 21, 2014

Colorado 'Sex Scandal' Continues

Two stories this author covered in earlier pieces seem to have merged into one story: the Obama administration’s decision to send out a threatening letter demanding that colleges treat sexual assault as a form of gender-based discriminatio...

November 7, 2014

The Left and Lena Dunham

Writer/Director/Actress Lena Dunham descended into a “rage-spiral,” after the conservative blog “truth-revolt” quoted her recently published memoir, and characterized her as a sexual predator. Dunham threatened to sue. The fac...

August 24, 2014

The delusions of anti-Israel conservatives

In 1948, the argument for the creation of Israel was a moral argument; the argument against the creation of Israel was based on an assessment of America’s national interest. Almost seventy years later Israel is an economic and military powerhou...

June 1, 2014

False Feminist Narratives

In the wake of the Isla Vista massacre, many in the mainstream media pointed to misogyny as the primary cause of Elliot Rodger’s murderous rampage; this is a dangerous and counterproductive misdirection. The feminist narrative sees the massacre...

May 16, 2014

<em>Schuette v. BAMN</em>: the Post-game Report

The Boston Globe described it as “tyranny of the majority.” Media Matters accused the Supreme Court of overturning longstanding precedent on civil rights law. And MSNBC accused the high court of refusing to acknowledge the existence of ra...

May 3, 2014

Beating your Kids is Worse than being a Racist

Last week the world came to an end. No, Vladimir Putin’s tanks didn’t roll into Ukraine; instead, audio of octogenarian Clippers owner Donald Sterling making derogatory comments about minorities surfaced. This isn’t a first for Dona...

April 21, 2014

Affirmative Action and Process Doctrine

Conservatives may be disappointed with the upcoming decision in Schuette v. Coalition, (the Supreme Court case involving Michigan’s ban on racial preferences). Unfortunately, the appellate court’s decision to strike down Michigan’s ...

April 11, 2014

Making Sense of Schuette v. Coalition

The Supreme Court will soon issue a ruling in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action by Any Means Necessary. A federal appeals court ruled that Michigan’s proposition two ballot initiative, (banning racial preferences in university ...

March 31, 2014

Trayvon Martin and the Flat Earth Society

TV journalist Lisa Bloom has just written a book about the Trayvon Martin case. Curious to find out more, I watched her interview with Cenk Uygur of “The Young Turks.” She started out by explaining that she wrote the book to demonstrate Z...

March 11, 2014

Cake Wars

In December 2013, Judge Robert Spencer ordered the owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop to start baking cakes for gay weddings. According to undercover footage obtained by the ACLU the proprietor, Jack Phillips, agreed to bake a cake for a wedding between ...

March 6, 2014

Is the CU-Boulder Sexual Harassment Scandal Falling Apart?

About a month ago, this author expressed his deep suspicion of claims that CU-Boulder’s philosophy department had a sexual harassment problem. The story made national news after the school released a report prepared by a “site visit ...

February 22, 2014

The Legitimacy of White Male Anger

Recently, while working on a longer article responding to critics of my women in philosophy article, this author came to a greater appreciation for conservative anger over affirmative action. Those demanding that more women be hired in various a...

February 14, 2014

Sexism and Philosophy

The recent "sex scandal" at CU-Boulder has led for calls to "change the climate" of philosophy. While philosophy, like every other profession, almost certainly has its share of boorish dudes, it cannot be described as a "hostile climate" for either w...

February 7, 2014

Something Fishy in Colorado

Following a "site visit" by a team from the American Philosophical Association's "Committee on the Status of Women," The University of Colorado at Boulder announced they were replacing the head of the philosophy department and instituting mandatory s...

January 31, 2014

The Obama Administration's War on Women

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, along with Minding the Campus, wrote extensively about the "Dear Colleague letter" sent by Russlyn Ali, the Department of Education's assistant secretary for civil rights, to America's various e...

January 23, 2014

The Victim's Perspective

In the fall of 2013 Samantha Geimer published her memoir, The Girl, a life in the shadow of Roman Polanski. In 1977 Samantha Geimer, (then Samantha Gailey), accused Roman Polanski of rape; Polanski would eventually plead guilty to the lesser charge o...

December 27, 2013

John Mosier and the Great Patriotic War

When Vladimir Putin penned his famous New York Times editorial, he referenced the WWII alliance between the U.S and U.S.S.R, where the two nations worked together to defeat Hitler. In the years since 1945 the Soviet victory over Nazism has become a c...

December 13, 2013

What Liberals don't get about Judicial Conservatism

While driving from Houston to Chicago this author had occasion to listen to Jeffrey Toobin's recent The Oath, a book about the relationship between the Robert's court and the Obama Administration. CNN watchers may recall Toobin for his legal analysis...

December 3, 2013

In the Garden of Beasts: Innocents in Nazi Germany

I picked up Erik Larson's book, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, with great trepidation. The book describes the experiences of U.S. ambassador William Dodd and his family in Nazi Germany. The other boo...

November 16, 2013

Don't pop the Champagne

Many readers will be familiar with the brouhaha surrounding Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, (no relation). AT Editor Thomas Lifson, and FoxNews's "The Five," both covered the controversy. In a column about prospective Republican presidential...

November 8, 2013

Incivility at Brown

The students chanted, the students yelled, and eventually they prevented New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly from speaking. The Taubmann Center at Brown University had invited Ray Kelley to discuss his department's controversial policing ...

October 12, 2013

Stand Your Ground laws Challenged at the UN

This month, the United Nation's Committee on Human Rights (CHR) will be considering a report submitted by the Dream Defenders, the NAACP, and the Community Justice Project of Florida Legal Services. Dream Defender Ahmad Abuznaid will travel to Geneva...

October 9, 2013

The Face of Terrorism

Last week, while Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) attempted to negotiate a two-state solution, a Palestinian gunman snuck into a Jewish settlement on the West Bank and shot a nine-year-old girl in the torso. Afterward, someone working for th...

October 7, 2013

The Value of Single-Sex Institutions

At the beginning of the excellent documentary Warriors of the French Foreign Legion, French General Bernard Grail is asked why the legion excludes women. He responds by saying that, "For the moment it is impossible for us to accept women into the leg...

September 27, 2013

The Left Betrays Liberty

In These Times describes its mission as "A strong democracy depends on healthy debate, and In These Times is one of only a handful of independent media projects fighting to widen the terms of national discussion." But according to Sady Doyle, writi...

September 25, 2013

Business Insider CTO fired for bigotry

On September 9 blogger NitashaTiku alerted the public to the twitter feed of Business Insider Chief Technical Officer Pax Dickinson, a man she labeled a "Tech Bro Nightmare." In the quoted tweets Pax expressed contempt for Feminism, made derisive com...

September 11, 2013

The P-Word

According to left-wing media and academic types the original sin of Anglo/French colonialism is responsible for all the trouble in the Middle East. Had the French not created the majority Christian (at the time) state of Lebanon, and the British the ...

September 9, 2013

Why Syria's Minorities Support Assad

While America debates whether to intervene in Syria, what is often missing is a discussion of the sectarian nature of the conflict. The secularism of Assad's Ba'ath party appeals to Syria's minorities, Assad's staunchest supporters, and angers the mo...

September 7, 2013

The Problem with Stealth

The US Air Force intends to replace its current fleet of F-16's and A-10's with stealthier F-35's, but aircraft expert Pierre Sprey thinks that's a bad idea. While the F-35 is indeed stealthier than either of these planes, stealth is not the most imp...

September 6, 2013

Why Afghanistan Matters

The U.S is set to withdraw combat forces from Afghanistan in 2014, and most Americans think that is a good thing. The conventional wisdom holds that whether the Taliban returns to power strictly concerns the Afghans and is of no import to America. Th...

July 29, 2013

The Daily Kos vs. Jeralyn Merritt

Talkleft, a website calling itself "the online magazine with liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news," drew the ire of posters at the Daily Kos for their fact-based legal analysis of the Zimmerman trial. Posters accused the pro...

July 5, 2013

Zimmerman's Magic Bullet

The prosecution of George Zimmerman will certainly go down as one of the more bizarre moments in America's legal history. Prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda and John Guy have attempted to convince jurors that George Zimmerman pinned Trayvon Martin to the...