[NOTE: This Substack post, from November 7th 2024, got me a lot of attention—still the most I’ve gotten on that platform. I re-present it below in the interests of blogging continuity (since it’s been an embarrassing number of years since I’ve blogged here). The sentiments presented herein were, I think, appropriate for that moment in […]

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1. Innocent Until Proven Guilty This began mainly with Lindsey Graham, who, before Thursday’s hearings, reminded us of his own experience as a defense attorney. The rebuttal, of course, is that Kavanaugh is not on trial—the committee’s evaluation is founded upon an entirely different and more abstract set of principles. The Senate Judiciary Committee has […]

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I keep making the same point (here and elsewhere) and not getting any traction, which surprises me: this is the main reason I’m a gun abolitionist. It’s not that I don’t countenance any rebuttals about hunting or self-defense. (I don’t, actually, but that’s beside the point.) It’s that I don’t understand why we’re not allowed […]

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