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  • Political Disagreement is a Bad Reason to Unfriend

    Political Disagreement is a Bad Reason to Unfriend0

    I have an interesting meeting next week. A young woman in my community is working very hard on a set of policy suggestions for environmental measures, and she wants a libertarian perspective on the ideas she has drawn up. So we’re going to get together over coffee and talk about her plan and about what

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  • Political Correctness: Word Police Want More Than Your Words

    Political Correctness: Word Police Want More Than Your Words0

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  • Political Correctness in the History of the South

    Political Correctness in the History of the South0

    I was recently gifted “The South Was Right,” by James Ronald and Walter Donald Kennedy, an updated version of a work originally produced in 1994. Seeking an antidote to the PC historiography in which our universities are now awash, I happily plunged into this printed gift. The present “leftist ideologues,” more than their predecessors, hate

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  • Policing Was Militarized from the Start

    Policing Was Militarized from the Start0

    “Do you see this soldier in this checkpoint?” complained Iraqi resident Wael al-Khafaji, pointing to a spot just a few feet from his Baghdad barbershop.  “He can do whatever he wants to me right now and I can’t say a word. Is this democracy?” Before the U.S. invasion, this businessman – like millions of other

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  • Policing the Public Schools: How Schools Are Becoming Even More Like Prisons

    Policing the Public Schools: How Schools Are Becoming Even More Like Prisons1

    In his book, Free To Learn, Boston College psychology professor Peter Gray makes the connection between school and prison. He writes: “Everyone who has ever been to school knows that school is prison, but almost nobody beyond school age says it is. It’s not polite.” It’s a prison in that young people are compelled to

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  • Police Encounters and Race

    Police Encounters and Race0

    “Son, you are going to jail,” the policeman told the terrified young man he had just stopped on a Virginia highway during a snowstorm. He put the young man, who was scared speechless, in the back seat of the police car, and accused the young man of damaging a guard rail on Route 29 with

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