Michael Lieberman insists that hate crime laws do not criminalize speech or thought. Let’s examine this position first, as much flows from it. As Lieberman points out (and as I noted in my article), U.S. hate crime laws indeed require …
Let’s not make this easy. Early in the morning of March 3, 1992, after a long discussion of their racial resentments, John Ayers and Sean Riley set out from their suburban neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland, looking for black people …
The Health Care Speech Obama Should Give
Right wingers love Friedrich Hayek. The Austrian-British economist is revered by true believers at the American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, the National Review, and the Weekly Standard. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher cited his ideas as central to the …
