Authority crisis
Rioters as young as nine are looting shops and burning buildings in cities across Great Britain. Pundits, of course, are trying to answer the question, “Why?” The left is predictably blaming social...
View ArticlePostmodern riots
Back in August, a police officer shot a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. According to media accounts, the teenager was unarmed and shot from a distance, suggesting an egregious case of police...
View ArticleIn Defense of Looting
Willie Osterweil (a white punk rocker) has written a defense of the looting in Ferguson, Missouri. Read it, excerpted and linked to after the jump. You might also take a look at Time‘s article “In...
View ArticleWhy do the winners riot?
Ohio State beat Oregon to win the collegiate football championship, the first one under the new playoff system. Question: Why in America do fans of the winners of big games riot, setting fires,...
View ArticleProfessional ball game closed to the public
Imagine two professional baseball teams playing each other but not letting any fans watch the game. Maybe that’s the future of professional sports. But it is happening today in Baltimore, where riots...
View ArticleRiots in Milwaukee
A police officer shot and killed an armed black man in Milwaukee, sparking a riot in which police were stoned with bricks, journalists were assaulted, several businesses were set on fire, and white...
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