Denial and Defamation—The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited, Part Two: The Trial
The more someone invests in a lie, the more painful it becomes to renounce.
Jamie Palmer
· 35 min read
Law
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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
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
How Antifa's Apologists Fell in Love With Street Violence
Antifa movements have sprung up in a variety of countries, often opposing Nazis and Nazi sympathizers while also promoting general far-left politics of the Marxist and communist variety.
Robby Soave
· 7 min read
Ideology and Facts Collide at Oberlin College
The recently concluded libel trial involving Oberlin College offered a demonstration of this phenomenon on the part of both the defendants and much of the media covering the case.
Daniel McGraw
· 15 min read
My Testimony on Reparations
Racism is a bloody stain on this country’s history, and I consider our failure to pay reparations directly to freed slaves after the Civil War to be one of the greatest injustices ever perpetrated by the U.S. government.
Coleman Hughes
· 4 min read
The Life of a Transgender Prisoner
Transgender convicts receive treatment from other prisoners that correlates to how attractive they are.
Henry Higgins
· 6 min read
Against Big Tech Viewpoint Discrimination
Some might claim that electric power is far more of a necessity that social media access.
James D. Miller
· 4 min read
Watching Harvard, My Alma Mater, Surrender to the Mob
Students who receive their education on campuses where mobs force the hand of professors and administrators can be expected to bring those same anti-liberal values into the wider world.
Kaveh Shahrooz
· 6 min read