Brickbat: Supply and Demand
Even as the National Health Service struggles with a shortage of doctors, the British government has ordered medical schools to hold to a previously announced cap and admit no more …
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Brickbat: Reckless Driving
Addis, Louisiana, police officer David Cauthron has been charged with two counts of negligent homicide and one count of negligent injuring for his role in a high-speed chase on New …
Originalism after Dobbs, Bruen, and Kennedy
In three cases last term, the constitutional concepts of history and tradition played important roles in the reasoning of the Supreme Court. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization relied on …
New Video Shows Memphis Police Fatally Beating, Tasing, Pepper-Spraying Tyre Nichols
The Memphis Police Department released video tonight of the deadly encounter between Tyre Nichols and police officers earlier this month that ultimately resulted in the death of the 29-year-old Nichols. …
Brickbat: Don’t Ever Take Sides Against the Family
Poulsbo, Washington, city prosecutor Alexis Foster resigned following a no confidence vote from the union representing the city’s police officers as well as criticism from the city’s police chief and …
Brickbat: Didn’t You See Me?
The Waterbury, Connecticut, police department has fired officer James Hinkle for screaming at and berating a woman who drove through an intersection where he was directing traffic. Hinkle accused the …
No, the World Is Not Heading Toward ‘Mass Extinction’
Have you heard? The world is about to end! 60 Minutes recently featured Paul Ehrlich, author of the bestseller, The Population Bomb. “Humanity is not sustainable,” he said. Why would …
MIT’s Free Speech Problem
Does the Massachsuetts Institute of Technology have a free speech problem? Daryl Morey, an MIT alum, thinks so, and wrote about it for the Wall Street Journal. In a new op-ed …
Michael Rosman Guest-Blogging About Title IX, Gender Identity, Sports, and Affirmative Action
I’m delighted to report that Michael Rosman of the Center for Individual Rights (whose work I have known and admired for decades) will be blogging this coming week about his …
Foster Parent Second Amendment Case Sent Back to District Court in Light of Bruen
From yesterday’s Seventh Circuit decision in Miller v. Smith, by Judges Joel Flaum, Ilana Rovner, and Michael Brennan: Appellants Darin and Jennifer Miller are both licensed foster home caretakers, and Jennifer …