Women Don’t Belong in Combat Units
#Politics #GenderFemale Marine recruits in boot camp in Parris Island, S.C., Feb. 27, 2013. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images…
Berlin ist halt doch ein bisschen wie Afrika
#PoliticsIch kann mich gut an meinen ersten Tag in Berlin erinnern. Ich stand früh auf, um Erledigungen zu machen: ein Gang zu Post und Bank, zu Telefonanbieter und Meldeamt. Was man halt so macht, wenn man ankommt. Ich war dann aber sehr bald wieder zu Hause.…
Welcher Staat soll’s denn sein?
#Politics #EUWir erleben derzeit so etwas wie ein Endspiel beim europäischen State-Building. Die Karten werden neu gemischt, mit weitreichenden Konsequenzen. So steht denn auch beim EU-Rahmenvertrag für die Eidgenossenschaft mehr auf dem Spiel als wirtschaftlicher Wohlstand oder direkte Demokratie.…
The First Amendment Is for Neo-Nazis, Too
#PoliticsUnfazed by a stream of hustling residents, chatty doormen, leashed dogs and well-born children, Richard Epstein holds forth in the lobby of the building where he lives, just off Manhattan’s Central Park. I worry about the background hubbub spoiling the recording of our conversation, but Mrs.…
Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google [Updated]
#PoliticsI value diversity and inclusion, am not denying that sexism exists, and don’t endorse using stereotypes. When addressing the gap in representation in the population, we need to look at population level differences in distributions.…
Why I Was Fired by Google
#PoliticsMy 10-page document set out what I considered a reasoned, well-researched, good-faith argument, but as I wrote, the viewpoint I was putting forward is generally suppressed at Google because of the company’s “ideological echo chamber.” [My firing](https://www.wsj.…
The Myths of Black Lives Matter
#Politics #RacismA television ad for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign now airing in South Carolina shows the candidate declaring that “too many encounters with law enforcement end tragically.” She later adds: “We have to face up to the hard truth of injustice and systemic racism.…
The Racial Reality of Policing
#Politics #RacismIt was one of the more effective training exercises that I saw during my years in the New York Police Department.…
Race, Politics and the Zimmerman Trial
#Politics #RacismThe left wants to blame black criminality on racial animus and ‚the system,‘ but blacks have long been part of running that system.…