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30 Dec 2015, 2:35 pm
For those of you who would rather watch Heather Mac Donald than read her, Mary Kissel of WSJ has this video interview. [read post]
12 Nov 2015, 8:30 am
Heather Mac Donald Tonight, Thursday, Nov. 12, conservative commenter Heather Mac Donald will visit ASU to deliver a talk titled “Is the American Great Crime Decline Sustainable? [read post]
9 Nov 2015, 1:26 pm
Heather Mac Donald Talks Ferguson Effect: In this article in the Providence Journal, Manhattan Institute Fellow Heather Mac Donald offers her take on the Ferguson effect and FBI Director James Comey's recent remarks on the topic that came under fire. [read post]
27 Oct 2015, 12:11 pm
This is the latest of Mac Donald's major essays on crime and punishment, which will be anthologized in a book in 2016. [read post]
10 Sep 2015, 9:40 am
The parade’s routine violence is getting more attention this year because one of the shooting victims was an aide of New York governor Andrew Cuomo. [read post]
8 Aug 2015, 8:34 am
Heather Mac Donald exposes the myth that drug enforcement creates criminals out of otherwise productive, peaceable young men who never had a chance. [read post]
20 Jul 2015, 8:53 am
The “Fostering Inclusive Excellence: Strategies and Tools for Department Chairs and Deans” seminar presumes that University of California faculty are so bigoted that they will refuse to hire the most qualified candidate for a professorship if that candidate happens to be female or an “underrepresented minority”—i.e., black or Hispanic. [read post]
17 Jul 2015, 10:18 am
Witness the campaign some scholars--loosely defined--are waging against Heather Mac Donald for challenging university pieties about a recent surge in violent crime. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 6:43 am
Mac Donald ends this way:The puzzle for the police is what critics like Blow want them to do -- police proactively and be accused of racism, or back off and wait for people to get shot and be accused of a dereliction of duty? [read post]
4 May 2015, 9:12 pm
” [WTVF (auto-plays ad) via Balko] As protagonists got deeper into trouble, they kept making bad decisions: Heather Mac Donald has a dissenting take on Alice Goffman’s much-noted book “On the Run” [City Journal, more favorable Tyler Cowen review previously linked] In Georgia: “Probation Firm Holds Poor For ‘Ransom,’ Suit Charges” [NBC News, Thomasville, Ga., Times-Enterprise] Police and fire jobs are dangerous by… [read post]
29 Apr 2015, 9:15 pm
Paul Butler, my friend and former Manhattan Institute colleague Heather Mac Donald (the middle-of-the-roader, in this context) and FOP’s Chuck Canterbury. [read post]
28 Dec 2014, 9:12 pm
“Georgia’s Highest Court Limits Power Of Private Probation Industry” [WABE, Augusta Chronicle, earlier here, here, here, and here] Federal judge slams as “preposterous” DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) actions in raid on Tampa pharmacy [Tampa Bay Online] “At Least 40 Federal Agencies Now Conduct Undercover Operations” [Jesse Walker] “’Gotcha’ program designed to rake in revenue”: “Nassau County Lawmakers Repeal… [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 10:22 am
Val Rust’s dissertation-prep class had devolved into a highly charged arena of competing victim ideologies, impenetrable to anyone outside academia. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 9:05 pm
UCLA admins grovel, humiliate veteran profs over charges of “microaggression” [Heather Mac Donald, City Journal] Meanwhile, this piece on overuse of disability card/trigger warnings in academic settings has already gotten labeled #AbleistAbuse so read at own risk [June Thunderstorm, The Baffler] Toughened D.C. truancy laws “flooding schools with paperwork and pushing tardy students into the criminal justice system” [WP] Polite opinion beginning to… [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 2:30 pm
Heather Mac Donald, Thomas W. [read post]
24 Oct 2014, 2:23 am
Related: Heather Mac Donald and Steve Malanga, City Journal; Jacob Sullum. [read post]
14 Oct 2014, 9:05 pm
Times, earlier] More thoughts on pros and cons of police cameras [Howard Wasserman/Prawfs, Scott Greenfield] Equal time: Heather Mac Donald’s perspective on Ferguson, policing, and race food for thought even if different from ours [City Journal; our earlier coverage of Ferguson] “15-year mandatory minimum federal sentence for possessing shotgun shells (no shotgun) almost 20 years after past felonies” [Volokh] How much criminal culpability for… [read post]
29 Sep 2014, 3:38 pm
The title of this entry is taken from Heather Mac Donald's article in the City Journal. [read post]
8 May 2014, 9:15 pm
Tweet Tags: racial preferences, Supreme CourtHeather Mac Donald on Schuette and the political-process doctrine is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 9:05 pm
Heather Mac Donald on gangs and the case for school discipline [NRO] Editorial board endorses parent liability for school bullying [Newark Star-Ledger] States to GAO: feds’ school lunch changes aren’t going well [Jason Bedrick, Cato; Washington Post] Proposed Rhode Island law: “No Child Under 7th Grade Shall Get On or Off School Bus Without a Guardian” [Free-Range Kids] St. [read post]
