What I Saw At the Conspiracy Theory Conference
When tribes collide
Culture
Brandeis Students: We Demand Diverse Commencement Speakers Who Won't Offend Us
They want a woman of color, but not the one they disinvited last year.
Guantanamo Detainee Becomes Best-Selling Author, Condemns Torture from Prison Cell
Mohamedou Slahi is still incarcerated even though a federal judge ordered his release in 2010.
Mickey Kaus: You Cannot Write Critically About Fox News at The Daily Caller
Blogger quits Tucker Carlson's conservative news site after having an anti-Fox piece yanked
Stop Smearing Critics of Islam as Islamophobes
Branding everything a "phobia" stifles meaningful debate.
Bringing Heinlein's Lunar Revolution Home: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress As a Major Motion Picture
Producer Thor Halvorssen talks about the forthcoming Fox movie based on Heinlein's Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Sports Stadiums Are Bad Public Investments. So Why Are Cities Still Paying for Them?
Joel Kotkin dispels some of the popular myths of stadium projects.
Religion in the Public Sphere Makes a God-Awful Mess
Of theology, trigger warnings, and tolerance
This Kid Was Expelled and Charged for Bringing Pot to School, Even Though He Didn't
Zero tolerance: Virginia school officials stand by their wrongful expulsion of an 11-year-old boy.
Tremendous Victory for Wyoming's Bipartisan Food Freedom Act
"The free market is suddenly hip on the farm again."
Flakka User Demonstrates 'Superhuman Strength' by Failing to Break Into a Police Station
Miami TV station warns that alpha-PVP is extremely dangerous and extremely popular.
Students Attack 'Triggering' Anti-Abortion Sign, Cop Says Free Speech Has Limits on Campus
'What I'm here to tell you is that on campus we have additional rules other than just freedom of speech,' said the cop.
Friday A/V Club: Rock 'n' Roll Invasion from the Moon
Two Firesign Theater veterans recut some ancient movie serials into a conspiracy comedy.
Gangs in Control of American Prisons: "The Social Order of the Underworld"
Q and A with author David Skarbek.
Blurred Lines: Prepare for Endless Frivolous Copyright Lawsuits
What Pandora's box of litigation did the ruling in favor of Marvin Gaye's estate in the "Blurred Lines" lawsuit open?
Oklahoma U. Expels Racist Students, But Not Violent Football Players
Do feelings matter more than actual violence?
Frat Brothers Make Execrable Racist Statements, America Forgets First Amendment
A school is exactly the kind of place where evil views should do battle with moral and logical views.
Should All Student Governments Be Overthrown?
A student government that does nothing would be better than UC-Irvine's.
The Melodramatic Strain In Feminist Politics
Students suffer as social-justice signaling demands increasingly hyperbolic vulnerability.
India Bans BBC's Searing Documentary on the Delhi Gang Rape
But the director's pc plea that rape is a global problem trivializes the violence Indian women confront
What "Out of Control" Biohacking Means for the Future
Q&A With Disinformation Encyclopedia Authors R.U. Sirius and Jay Cornell
"Fascinating": Anti-Abortion Idaho Pol Says He Knew That Vagina & Stomach Aren't Connected
Anti-abortion legislators are using bogus safety concerns about telemedicine to win victories that they cannot via straight-up political arguments.
21-Year-Old Dates 15-Year-Old, Could Be Branded Sex Offender for 25 Years
Sex offender labels that make no sense
Second SAE Video: Even the 79-Year-Old House Mother Was a Racist
First Amendment experts react to the University of Oklahoma news.
Two Teens Have Sex. Neither Could Legally Consent, But Only the Boy Gets a Felony Charge.
Underage teens having sex is awkward, but it shouldn't be criminal.
Beltway Bubble Alert: Americans Split on Whether Being Gay Is a Choice
Equal numbers say it is and isn't. Whether that will help Ben Carson remains to be seen.
France Dishonors Charlie Hebdo By Policing Hate Speech
To grant the state the authority to police hatred is to open the door to the policing of thought, conscience, and morality.
"That's It, House of Cards. You Lost Me."
A show that was once darkly great has descended into prosaic moralism. God save us from fictional pols who are serious about jobs programs.
