Brickbats: November 2020

Douglas County, Nevada, Public Library Director Amy Dodson said a statement from the library in support of the Black Lives Matter movement was not an attack on police. But that’s …

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Today in Supreme Court History: November 1, 1961

11/1/1961: Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut opens center in New Haven, CT. “Specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give …

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The Nationalism-ists

War for Eternity: Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers, by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, Dey St., 317 pages, $28.99 In War for Eternity, Benjamin R. Teitelbaum situates Steve Bannon, President Donald …

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Today in Supreme Court History: October 31, 1963

10/31/1963: Cleveland Police Detective patted down, and arrested John W. Terry. The Warren Court (1962-1965) ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce …

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The Weird Beauty of Suburbia

The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs, by Jason Diamond, Coffee House Press, 264 pages, $16.95 I was scrolling through the posts on my Maryland neighborhood’s Listserv this summer when …

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Why Biden is a Lesser Evil than Trump

Joe Biden and Donald Trump at the September 30 presidential debate.   If you’re a libertarian like me, elections in the US two-party system often come down to choosing the …

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