A Reasoned Judgment and a Reputation in Ruins
Depp has found that using the law to defend your reputation is a very expensive way of shattering it.
Matthew Scott
· 10 min read
Law
A collection of 72 posts
Police Violence and the Rush to Judgment
The time has come for a serious conversation about police brutality, criminal justice reform, and how political polarization prevents progress.
Rav Arora
· 14 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
Arguing in America
Lawyers like to joke that a ruling is probably correct if both sides are equally upset by it.
Geoff Costeloe
· 6 min read
Pell’s Pyrrhic Victory
Pell became a public target onto which a deep well of private resentment—much of which was wholly irrelevant to his own conduct—could be directed when the opportunity arose.
RJ Smith
· 6 min read
Fabricated Innocence
The self-exoneration and re-incrimination of Jens Soering.
Andrew Hammel
· 42 min read
An Alternative Feminist Perspective on Abortion
The fight to enshrine the right to unrestricted abortion in law is based on ideological feminism’s two main premises: victimization and what I call “undifferentiation.”
Silvia G. Poratelli
· 12 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
Denial and Defamation—The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited, Part II: The Trial
The more someone invests in a lie, the more painful it becomes to renounce.
Jamie Palmer
· 35 min read
Denial and Defamation—The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited, Part One: The Camps
The story of the ITN trip to Bosnia—and the bitter quarrel about its reporting that followed—is a cautionary tale about the destructive and deranging effects of ideological hubris.
Jamie Palmer
· 33 min read
I Asked Thousands of Biologists When Life Begins. The Answer Wasn't Popular
The U.S. abortion debate has raged for generations, and remains divisive to this day.
Steve Jacobs
· 8 min read
Male-Bodied Rapists Are Being Imprisoned With Women. Why Do so Few People Care?
It appears that common sense is forgotten once the words “gender identity” are invoked.
April Halley
· 15 min read
Jeffrey Epstein and All the Others: An Explainer
Epstein’s crimes present an opportunity to consider larger historical, anthropological, cultural lessons about the seemingly endless, whack-a-mole reappearance of men with his obsessions.
Kay Hymowitz
· 9 min read
A Canadian Human Rights Spectacle Exposes the Risks of Unfettered Gender Self-ID
The central point of gender self-ID is that you are taking someone to be a woman or a man solely on the basis of what they claim
Helen Joyce
· 11 min read
The Many Lies of Carl Beech
Beech claimed he had been tied up and had his bones broken by Generals and Field Marshals
Matthew Scott
· 16 min read