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7 Apr 2018, 10:46 am by Eugene Volokh
(The citation was alongside a citation to the late, great Judge Stephen Reinhardt; here, by the way, is a lovely obituary for Judge Reinhardt by Heather Mac Donald.) [2.] [read post]
4 Apr 2018, 6:05 pm by Howard Bashman
” Online at City Journal, Heather Mac Donald has a post that begins, “I was the ‘clerk who had gone bad,’ U.S. [read post]
31 Jan 2018, 1:55 pm by Kent Scheidegger
  Here is Heather Mac Donald's note:The president called for reforming prisons to help inmates get a second chance at life after their release. [read post]
20 Oct 2017, 4:01 am by SHG
That is what justifies Claremont Mc­Kenna’s decision to punish seven students for their role in blocking an audience from hearing a speech by Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and critic of the Black Lives Matter movement, and that would justify a decision by William & Mary to take action against those that prevented the ACLU’s Claire Guthrie Gastañaga from speaking because of the group’s legal defense of white… [read post]
21 Sep 2017, 8:58 am by Bill Otis
"Anti-police activists have been using the Burge case for over a decade to justify counterproductive constraints on the CPD today, even though the CPD has long since taken measures to make sure that such abuse never happens again," said Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of "The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe. [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 11:40 pm by Bill Otis
"Violent street crime in the U.S. is almost exclusively a province of blacks and Hispanics," Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of "The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe," told LifeZette.Said Mac Donald: "In New York City, for example, blacks and Hispanics commit 98 percent of all shootings. [read post]
31 Aug 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
[Jacob Gershman on Twitter citing SEC filing] Symposium with Richard Epstein, Heather Mac Donald, KC Johnson, John McWhorter, Jonathan Rauch, Adam White and many others: “Is Free Speech Under Threat in the United States? [read post]
29 Aug 2017, 10:14 am by Eugene Volokh
This predictably drew not just criticism but mischaracterization and calls for suppression; Heather Mac Donald has details on that in the National Review, which I won’t repeat here (but which I urge you to read about). [read post]
19 Aug 2017, 6:57 am by Walter Olson
Heather Mac Donald writes on how some workplaces are being remade in the image of college speech codes [WSJ] And my appearance last week on Guy Gordon’s WJR Detroit talk show is now online: Tags: Google, on TV and radio, political correctness “It would have been career suicide to defend me. [read post]
7 Aug 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” [Dante Ramos, Boston Globe] “Betsy DeVos Is Right: Sexual Assault Policy Is Broken” [Cathy Young, New York Times] “Claremont McKenna College disciplines seven students for blockade that shut down Heather Mac Donald speech” [Volokh] Carve-outs from free speech norms get used disproportionately by more powerful/popular against less powerful/popular? [read post]
17 Jul 2017, 4:04 pm by Eugene Volokh
Here’s a statement just released by Claremont McKenna College (about the incident blogged about here): Claremont McKenna College has completed the full conduct process after students blocked access to the Athenaeum and Kravis Center on April 6, with the expressed intent to shut down that evening’s speaker, Heather Mac Donald, the Thomas W. [read post]
11 Jul 2017, 2:17 pm by Bill Otis
 So harmony is allowed, as long as it's a monochrome song.Heather Mac Donald and I chimed right in with some notes sure to be considered off-key:"If YouCaring has indeed funded Black Lives Matter campaigns, then its rationale for canceling the anti-Black Lives Matter fundraiser -- that YouCaring avoids 'promoting discord' -- is the height of hypocrisy," said Heather Mac Donald, Manhattan Institute fellow and author of… [read post]
20 Jun 2017, 4:50 pm by Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz
  Top-notch contributors include Richard Epstein, Heather Mac Donald, John McWhorter, Harvey Silverglate and our own Eugene Kontorovich. [read post]
28 May 2017, 4:28 pm by Bill Otis
I've often said that Heather Mac Donald is the best in the business for analyzing policy about police practices and sentencing. [read post]
30 Apr 2017, 8:58 am by Walter Olson
Some recent installments in the FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) podcast series So To Speak, hosted by Nico Perrino: Bob Corn-Revere on “censorship: the bastard child of technology”; Flemming Rose of Cato, formerly with Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten; Sam Gedge of the Institute for Justice on campaign finance laws and the First Amendment; the “heckler’s veto” strikes Heather Mac Donald; Geoffrey Stone of Chicago Law on… [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 7:31 pm by Bill Otis
Conservative speakers may get shoved off campus by liberal fascists, but Heather Mac Donald, for one, and her assiduously researched views, are welcome in this space. [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
“Keeping this case in a pending status gives us one hell of a club” — how Nixon used antitrust to intimidate media [Guy Rolnik, Stigler Center ProMarket] For ruthlessness in bullying hostile press, Nixon and LBJ had nothing on FDR and his New Dealers [David Beito] In which I display impatience with Claremont Colleges student no-platformers who signed a letter defending speaker shout-downs and demanding that conservative student journalists be disciplined [Scott Greenfield, more… [read post]
18 Apr 2017, 11:44 am by Ken White
If engaged, Heather Mac Donald would not be debating on mere difference of opinion, but the right of Black people to exist. [read post]