Thank you, Instapundit! (here) And to John Hinderaker at the Power Line blog (here). I have written at length about the Southern Poverty Law Center for City Journal. SPLC is a demagogic direct-mail racket and leftist smear shop posing as a civil rights organization. SPLC’s mission is espec…
Month: December 2018
Farewell to 2018
2018 was a busy year. For my main platform, Law & Liberty (where I am a contributing editor), I wrote 22 columns, falling slightly short of my goal of two per month. I had a major article published by the Texas Review of Law & Politics, a student-edited scholarly publication. I also had …
Beyond Janus: Revisiting the Unified Bar
A slightly edited version of this essay appeared in Law & Liberty on December 24, 2018–my last post of the year. (Here) Merry Christmas! Thanks to SCOTUSblog (here) and How Appealing. Also, thanks to Real Clear Policy (here). The era of Lathrop’s “goose-stepping brigades” is about…
The “Pulliam Effect”?
There is a struggle going on for Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s soul. Today, Linda Greenhouse, the famous New York Times reporter who covers the Supreme Court (and namesake of the “Greenhouse Effect”) tried to push Kavanaugh into the arms of Chief Justice John Roberts, replacing Just…
Remembering Jonestown: The Forgotten Story of Jim Jones and His Enablers
This essay originally appeared, in a slightly edited form, in Modern Age, as”Drinking the Kool-Aid.” (here) On November 18, 1978 over 900 people—including many children—were poisoned or shot to death at a bizarre cult compound in a South American jungle. California congressman Leo…
Kavanaugh: Too Soon to Be Reading Tea Leaves
This essay originally appeared in American Greatness on December 14, 2018 (here). Thanks to Instapundit! (here) And also thanks to How Appealing. (here) And SCOTUSblog (here). And Linda Greenhouse in the New York Times! (here) “Justice Brett Kavanaugh.” Savor those words: They were the culmin…
After Janus, What’s Next?
I have written about both Janus (the Supreme Court decision overruling Abood), and the common but often-overlooked practice of “release time” in public sector labor contracts. In a piece for Law & Liberty I combine the topics and suggest that “release time” may be subj…
Dire Measures for Dire Times
Texas’s cities are becoming “woke.” How do we save the rest of the state? The progressive nightmare I described in my City Journal article, “Woke City,” got even worse as a result of the November 6, 2018 election. A blue tsunami swept through Travis County, by a 70% to 30% m…