Jesse Larner Responds  

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 …



Hate Crime/Thought Crime  

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 …