Betsy Clarke

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• Blog

  January 7, 2021

  The ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Double Standard

  Media and politicians are wringing their hands about the occupation of the capitol building by the nation’s people yesterday. This is different from how they reacted to BLM and ANTIFA tearing apart American cities over the summer.

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• Reviews

  January 2021

  Union Without Unity

  Richard Kreitner’s book Break It Up chronicles the rocky history of the American union and the many secession movements that have arisen from colonial times to current-day separatists such as the ill-fated Jonestown and Seattle's CHAZ.

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• Reviews

  April/May 2020

  Fatal Amendments

  Enthusiastic defenders of the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution are fundamentalist cultists—and women and minorities are their victims. At least, that is the thesis of University of Miami law professor Mary Anne Franks’ new book, The Cult of the Constitution, an unforgiving disparagement of the Constitution’s white male origins and the allegedly unwoke application of its protections. Her subtitle brings the point home: “Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech.”

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• Reviews

  August 2019

  Supreme Court's Drifting Days Are Done

  This scrupulously objective book may be considered a gift to conservatives who have long despaired about the possibility of principled legal tenets regularly prevailing in Supreme Court opinions. For decades this long-suffering group has watched Republican Supreme Court appointees concur in various left-wing crackpot decisions that have become the law of the land.

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• Reviews

  April 2019

  No Justice, No Peace

  There is no pleasing Duke University law professor Brandon L. Garrett, author of the death-penalty-abolishment screed End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice, though much about the current state of criminal justice should please him.

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Latest by Betsy Clarke in ITO

• Culture

  January 7, 2021

  The ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Double Standard

  Media and politicians are wringing their hands about the occupation of the capitol building by the nation’s people yesterday. This is different from how they reacted to BLM and ANTIFA tearing apart American cities over the summer.

  Read more