The acronym 2SLGBTQ + IA stands for two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, androgynous, and asexual. The 2SLGBTQ+IA community is often described as seeking “rights and equality” for its members. What fair-minded person could object? Increasingly, however, the community appears to want privileges and equity
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Social justice warriors accuse the police of systemic racism. At the same time, they push revolutionary changes in police procedure that cement extreme bias into the very structure of law enforcement—a bias that will fall heavily upon black men. It is called victim-centered justice, and
Politics moves from campus to Main Street. The next political attack is likely to be on due process—the foundation of Western justice itself. Much depends on which side of the current debate on campus sexual misconduct hearings wins. Does a person accused of sexual misconduct deserve due process in the investigation and hearing that determine his
The activists went from “We want to be left alone to live our lives” to “we want to control your lives too.” Now the movement has state power on its side and bullies all opponents. Original Article: “2SLGBTQ+IA and the
A guilty-until-proven-innocent mentality is winning at many colleges where a “believe the women” ideology dominates. Now these trends are making inroads into criminal justice even off-campus. Original Article: “ Victim-Centered” Justice Is a Threat to Due Process “ This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by
By embedding victim-centered justice in law, lack of due process will become institutionalized. The burden of this will fall on men, and in particular black men. Original Article: “ Victim-Centered Justice Throws Black Men under the Bus “ This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.
Election 2020 is the same as every other election, only the state’s mask of legitimacy is slipping. Original Article: “ Election 2020: Choking on the Political Red and Blue Pills “. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.
President Joe Biden has vowed to put a “quick end” to the Trump administration’s Title IX regulations and return to Obama-era ones at universities. If this happens, there will be no due process for those accused of sexual misconduct. Original Article: “ Title IX Will Become a Vehicle of More Injustice “ This Audio Mises Wire is generously
The Free Market 19, no. 1 (January 2001) History frowns upon the belief that government protects children’s rights, and yet that is precisely the claim that undergirds child labor laws, now enforced in most parts of the world. Hardly anyone dares question their existence, much less the conventional history of child labor, no matter how many
“You want your invention to yourself? Then keep it to yourself.” – Benjamin R. Tucker [From the book The Debates of Liberty ] Intellectual property — as embodied in copyright and patent — was the subject of intense debate within Liberty . Benjamin Tucker flatly rejected the idea that legal copyright was compatible with anarchism. The strength of
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