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
Law
A collection of 70 posts
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 (II)
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 (I)
And those who continue to protest the trial’s outcome invariably do so as part of an implicit—and frequently explicit—attempt to invalidate the reckoning with Living Marxism’s record of defamation and denial that the trial was intended to provide.
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
How Due Process Fell Victim to Good Intentions: A Veteran Court Reporter Looks Back
The Tarrant manifesto is banned in New Zealand. This is ridiculous, I think. How can you know a thing if you’re not allowed to name it?
Christie Blatchford
· 15 min read
Human Dignity and Human Rights
But it does mean that arbitrary factors, such as whether one is born into a wealthy family or happens to be part of some historically elevated demographic, should not determine where people end up
Matt McManus
· 8 min read