The Importance of Blasphemy
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read
Crime
A collection of 109 posts
L.A.'s Failed Homeless Policies Turned My Home Into a Prison
I support helping the homeless—but with meaningful measures that have been proven to work, as opposed to policy that’s heavy on virtue signaling and ultimately short on humanitarian substance.
Amy Alkon
· 18 min read
Exploiting a Woman’s Deadly Fall to Smear Toronto's Police
But instead, progressives such as Singh are far more interested in polluting Twitter with lazy lies and protest applause lines that erase any distinction between policing methods.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Neglecting At-Risk Children in the Name of Cultural Sensitivity
She has more than 20 years of experience working with families and children in true crisis, including with issues ranging from rape, to drug addiction, to terminal illness
Hal Niedzviecki
· 8 min read
PODCAST 106: Journalist and Documentary Maker Christopher Rufo on the Summer of Anarchy in Seattle and Portland
Listen onSpotify Christopher Rufo, Director of the Center on Wealth & Poverty at Discovery Institute, talks to Jonathan Kay about the ideology fuelling the violent protests in Seattle and Portland.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
Getting Rid of Bar Exams Won't Help Anyone
Moreover, proponents of lowering the bar aren’t always acting on social-justice motives.
Joshua Hunter
· 6 min read
Policing in the Anomie Era
Over the last 20 years there has been a massive increase in awareness of Indigenous issues in Canada.
Mike Wilson
· 10 min read
Racist Police Violence Reconsidered
Blacks are still somewhat more likely than whites to suffer physical and verbal abuse from the cops even when the behavior of the suspect is taken into account. Findings like these contribute to a general sense that cops treat black people as an enemy.
John McWhorter
· 9 min read
Condemn this Violence without Equivocation
The protests are not merely the legitimate exercise of constitutional rights to assemble and to petition our government—they are essential for sustaining the moral health of our democracy.
Glenn C. Loury
· 4 min read
The Return of Riot Ideology
Cities in which inequality has been allowed to deepen for a generation now need to find new strategies that provide hope and fairer policies to their poorer residents. The alternative is watching them burn when minority and working class resentment inevitably erupts.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
America's Black Communities Are Suffering. Violent Protests Will Make the Suffering Worse
All in all, the evidence suggests that violent protests and rioting empower right-wing political forces, provide an opportunity for gangs to enrich themselves and exploit destabilized local populations, impoverish property owners, and harm long-term economic fortunes.
Zaid Jilani
· 9 min read
Return to ‘The Unheavenly City’
“This book will probably strike many readers as the work of an ill-tempered and mean-spirited fellow,” Banfield explained, “but facts are facts, however, unpleasant, and they have to be faced unblinkingly by anyone who really wants to improve matters in the cities.”
Craig Trainor
· 12 min read
Fabricated Innocence
The self-exoneration and re-incrimination of Jens Soering.
Andrew Hammel
· 42 min read
Convictions and Doubts: The Case of Cardinal Pell
Several factors cast doubt on the accuracy and/or veracity of the complainant’s account.
RJ Smith
· 14 min read
Grooming Gangs and Indifferent Police: What Have We Learned After Rotherham?
Sajid Javid, during his time as the U.K.’s Home Secretary, promised an investigation into the grooming phenomenon but nothing materialized. It is clear that we need investigations, but we also need accountability.
Ben Sixsmith
· 9 min read