The Verdict
The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse of murder and reckless endangerment charges was probably correct under Wisconsin law. The circumstances of the confrontations between Rittenhouse and his victims were ambiguous enough to create reasonable doubt that he was not acting in ...
Read MoreThe Tuesday Disaster
Yes, Tuesday’s election results were indeed a disaster, but I’m going to start with some optimistic observations. These elections took place under a set of circumstances that could easily be inoperative a year from now. Joe Biden and the Democrats ...
Read MoreUnlikely Allies
Is this or is this not remarkable: Noam Chomsky signing onto a political declaration co-authored by Bill Kristol. Chomsky, radical left critic of capitalism and American foreign policy. Kristol, neo-conservative warmonger. In common cause. The cause is American democracy, which ...
Read MoreCancel Culture at MIT
I was disturbed to read about MIT’s recent cancellation of a lecture by the highly reputed geophysicist Dorian Abbot of the U of Chicago. Abbot’s lecture was to be on the subject of climate change and the possibility of human ...
Read MoreWatch out! Critical Race Theory is coming for our children!
The front page of Monday’s NY Times featured a story that was both distressing and infuriating. It told of the travails of Andrea Kane, the supervisor of schools in Queen Anne’s County Md., who tried to raise with the parents ...
Read MoreOur Constitutional Crisis
It is unusual for me to read an opinion piece in a leading US newspaper that is as long as this one and find practically nothing to disagree with. It is all the more unusual when the writer is somebody ...
Read More9/11 at 20
The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks always calls forth a great deal of heart-wrenching recollections. I personally find it just too hard to read the many stories of the victims and their families that always get published in the days ...
Read MoreAbortion Rights Follow-up
A reader has responded to my post of yesterday with some useful information, which I am passing on: Following up on your suggestion re supporting organizations that fund transportation and other expenses for women who have to travel to obtain ...
Read MoreThe Radical Supremes
The Supreme Court is a political institution. It makes major, politically contentious policy decisions, and it makes them along partisan lines. These observations should be non-controversial, but they weren’t always obviously true. Earl Warren was a Republican politician, but he ...
Read MoreNo Easy Exit
I find myself increasingly annoyed at much of the press coverage of the end of the US war in Afghanistan. Yes, the Biden administration did obviously screw up in not planning for the possibility of a quick collapse of the ...
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