Brickbat: Stay Out
A court in Perth, Australia, has sentenced a woman to six months in jail for trying to return to the state of Western Australia from the state of Victoria without …
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Homonymphobia
Our reader Michael Hershey has identified this as the cause of the USC Business School “neige” debacle. But I think it might be better labeled an argument ad homonym. ReasonFounded …
If Employers Believe That Hearing the Mandarin “Neige” (Meaning “That”) “Affect[s]” Black Students’ “Mental Health,”
I wrote on Thursday about USC Business School professor Greg Patton (who, among other things, is a specialist on business in China) being taken out of his business communication course, …
No Punitive Damages in Sex Abuse Lawsuits Against Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Because of Epstein’s “Reported Suicide”
From an opinion by Judge Katherine Polk Failla in Doe v. Indyke (S.D.N.Y.), decided in late June, but just mentioned in the Westlaw Bulletin: To begin, Defendants seek dismissal of Plaintiff’s …
Bust the Police Unions
In this month’s issue, we draw on decades of Reason journalism about policing and criminal justice to make practical suggestions about how to use the momentum of this summer’s tumultuous …
Steven Pinker Survives Attempted Cancellation
In early July, a group of linguistics researchers published an open letter calling for the Linguistics Society of America (LSA) to revoke the organization’s distinguished fellow status from linguist and …
USC “Casting Insult Toward the Chinese Language”
From the L.A. Times (Nina Agrawal), also echoed in (un-paywalled) Newsweek, based on a (paywalled) L.A. Times article, about the item I wrote about here: This week a group of nearly …
Racial Classification at Birth
For decades, the CDC has collaborated with the states to collect data on births in the United States. Among the data collected is “race.” Let’s see if you can figure …
‘Limited, Arbitrary, and Unsystematic:’ Flawed Federal Dietary Report Targets Alcohol
Critics are lining up to blast a report, issued by a federal committee earlier this summer, that urges the government to make steep cuts to the definition of moderate alcohol …
Today in Supreme Court History: September 5, 1922
9/5/1922: Justice George Sutherland takes the oath. Justice George Sutherland ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil …