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.…
Was war das noch mal: der Liberalismus?
#PoliticsWar das «progressiv»? War er gar ein Linker? Fehlanzeige. Den idealistischen Ruf nach Gerechtigkeit konterte er mit einem kühlen «Gerechtigkeit gibt es nicht». Und vom Rechthaben und Rechtbehalten hielt er erst recht nichts. Was man in einem Rechtsstaat erwarten könne, sei Verfahrensgerechtigkeit.…
Freiheit oder Wohlstand - was wollt ihr?
#PoliticsGutes zu tun, kann man nicht an den Staat delegieren, Gutes kann auch nicht «in die Wege geleitet» werden. Gutes muss man selber tun. Und die einzige Voraussetzung, die es dazu braucht, ist Freiheit.…
Bad Bad Banks
#Finance #Economy #Politics_And the financial crisis goes on … And the politicians still think they can avoid the painful solution and try to sustain asset prices. But the prices of many assets are bubble prices and these prices need to fall to market levels.…