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20 Apr 2023, 8:55 am by Tom Smith
Mac Donald: It was so much more than an outburst of anger. [read post]
5 Mar 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Joanna Schwartz, Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable (Viking, 2023).Peter H. [read post]
2 Mar 2022, 4:59 am by Gail Heriot
Among the authors are John Ellis, Lance Izumi & Rowena Itchon, Peter Kirsanow, Heather Mac Donald, Maimon Schwarzschild, and Peter Wood. [read post]
12 Feb 2022, 4:38 am by SHG
 Heather Mac Donald notes that in the year 2019, there were 7,484 black victims of homicide. [read post]
15 Jan 2022, 9:22 am by Tom Smith
Law enforcement leaders and some public commentators—including City Journal contributing editor Heather Mac Donald—identified a “Ferguson Effect,” whereby public scrutiny reduced police proactivity and led to an increase in violent crime. [read post]
7 Jul 2021, 1:00 am by Jonathan Marks
For example, when one hears Heather Mac Donald assert that Shakespeare is “on life support” in our classrooms, one ought to know that, according to the Open Syllabus Project, Shakespeare still tops the charts, followed by Plato. [read post]
11 May 2020, 5:17 am
“A prolonged depression will stunt lives as surely as any viral epidemic, and its toll will not be confined to the elderly,” Heather Mac Donald argues at Spectator USA....At Arc Digital, Esther O’Reilly asks, “Why should we assume that a crashing economy would leave the healthcare system standing? [read post]
14 Mar 2020, 3:44 pm by Tom Smith
The issue, as Heather acknowledges, is the exponential growth of the disease, not its current state. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 2:59 am by Walter Olson
Department of Justice press release] Waiting-and-seeing on the Trump campus free speech executive order [from this spring: Eugene Volokh; Heather Mac Donald (“The history of government mission creep and bloat is not reassuring”); FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) statement; Neal McCluskey, Cato; Keith Whittington; Donald Downs, Martin Center; Tyler Cowen] Letter from 12 scholars: “Philosophers Should Not Be Sanctioned Over… [read post]
17 Jun 2019, 2:58 am by Walter Olson
” [Heather Mac Donald, City Journal via Eugene Volokh] “Targeted Advertising and Age Discrimination: An Explainer” [Joe Ruckert, On Labor] Tags: advertising, age discrimination, discrimination law, EEOC, Facebook, police, pregnancy discrimination, vaccines [read post]
13 May 2019, 8:06 am by Eugene Volokh
Heather Mac Donald writes about this at the City Journal. [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 7:11 am by Eugene Volokh
., Keith Whittington's and Heather Mac Donald's) of President Trump's Executive Order on campus free speech. [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 4:47 am by SHG
Few Black Studies professors dread losing NSF grants if they shut down the campus over a Heather Mac Donald talk. [read post]
8 Jan 2019, 12:20 pm by Gail Heriot
The Keynote will be by Heather Mac Donald. [read post]
22 Dec 2018, 1:19 pm by Tom Smith
A federal commission on school safety has repudiated the use of disparate-impact analysis in evaluating whether school discipline is racially biased. [read post]
24 Nov 2018, 8:51 am by Walter Olson
While such figures as Second Circuit chief judge Dennis Jacobs and my former Manhattan Institute colleague Heather Mac Donald have proposed critiques of its excesses over the years, big-firm pro bono is still wrapped in a cocoon of self-congratulation, spun in part from unexamined premises about (among other issues) who should count as the poor and what as the public interest. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 4:02 pm
.'"From "Sarah Jeong Is a Boring, Typical Product of the American Academy" by Heather Mac Donald in National Review.I don't understand attacking Critical Race Theory and Critical Legal Studies as "hoary. [read post]
15 Jun 2018, 3:09 am by Walter Olson
” [George Leef] “As many as one in four students at some elite U.S. colleges are now classified as disabled, largely because of mental-health issues such as depression or anxiety, entitling them to a widening array of special accommodations like longer time to take exams” [Douglas Belkin, WSJ] Diversity follies in STEM [Heather Mac Donald, City Journal] University of Michigan employs 93 full-time diversity staffers [Mark Perry] “Six Ideas… [read post]