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I know I’ve been a pretty awful blogger of late, but this afternoon I did manage to record a pretty interesting Skypecast with Scott Payne and my former Culture11 colleague Joe Carter, in which we took up the topic of policing and criminal justice, jumping off from this post of Joe’s on l’aiffaire Gates, which [...]
Filed under: civil liberties, government/law, personal
This post by R.R. Reno is a bizarre read. I’m entirely willing to entertain the view that race may have had much less to do with the arrest of Henry Louis Gates than many have claimed, or indeed that race may have had nothing to do with his arrest at all. Hence when one of [...]
Filed under: civil liberties, media/culture
Radley Balko flags a Gene Healy column discussing the apparent statis- er, progressivism of the millennial generation. Radley adds:
If there’s an upside to this it’s that the first generation that can’t remember a time before the Internet does seem to at least to care about civil liberties. They tend to be anti-war, anti-drug war, cognizant [...]
Filed under: civil liberties, libertarianism, politics
by JL Wall
Apparently the irony in the title of this brief post — “Round Up Hate-Promoters Now, Before Any More Holocaust Museum Attacks” — is lost on its author (h/t Jack Hunter). The logic of “Isn’t it time we started rounding up promoters of hate before they kill?” is exceptionally flawed and exceptionally dangerous. (I’m [...]
Filed under: civil liberties, government/law
So I’m really having trouble following the argument in this paragraph of Chris Bodenner’s:
As Andrew noted yesterday, Obama has done a lot to defang Cheneyism; he has postponed an exit in Iraq, retained Gates, increased troop levels in Afghanistan, elevated McChrystal, kept rendition, revived military tribunals, and punted on the torture photos. So what’s left [...]
Filed under: civil liberties, politics, torture, war
I’d really love to see what defenders of campaign finance reform can find to say in their defense after watching this:
Filed under: civil liberties, media/culture, politics
Reflecting on Ross’s debut from his new perch at – yes, them again – First Things, my friend and former colleague James Poulos is at his best:
The issue is not whether torture is capable of producing results, or even the quality of those results. A million monkeys at a million waterboards will eventually produce a [...]
Filed under: civil liberties, government/law, torture
Andrew Sullivan asks for evidence of conservative blogs or sites that protested the Bush-era surveillance state. I haven’t been at this for all that long and am sure that there are others who could do a more impressive job of this than I can, but for the record you can go here, here, here, here, [...]
Filed under: civil liberties, conservatism
by JL Wall
E.D. Kain, on Iraq:
But that should call in to question why we are so dependent on oil to begin with, and beyond that, why we as a culture have shifted so many of our priorities to a belief in unending growth that can and should be enforced by an omnipotent military.
The problem with [...]
Filed under: civil liberties, economics, government/law, philosophy, war
by JL Wall
Two weeks ago (but I’m just now getting to it) Patrick Deneen helped reiterate a point that I’ve become particularly keen on over the past year or so:
My argument, in a nutshell, is that the liberal arts were based on the teaching of an older form of liberty, namely the liberty that is [...]
Filed under: civil liberties, education