Jon Guze

Criminal justice contrarian John Pfaff recently published an article in which he explodes five “myths about prisons.” According to Pfaff, “Much of the debate about criminal justice is built on misconceptions that often push reform in inadequate and even counterproductive directions.” The piece is worth reading in full, but…

A modest proposal from Tyler Cowen in a recent blog post: Would urban bicycling pass an FDA test of “safe and effective”?  Furthermore, as a driver and pedestrian I observe cyclists breaking the law — most of all running red lights — at an alarming rate.  And surely…

The members of America’s intellectual elite seem to get some kind of perverse pleasure from denigrating their own country, but ordinary people the world over know better. In a recent article at Forbes.com, Adam Ozimek provides this table showing the results of a 2013 Gallup poll: Read the…

As most Locker Room readers are no doubt aware, in Rucho v. Common Cause, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld North Carolina’s Congressional district maps despite the fact that they were gerrymandered to favor Republicans. The court held that political gerrymandering is a “political question” and therefore “non-justiciable.” In a…

In Hong Kong this month, millions of people took to the streets to protest a recent attempt by the Chinese Communist government to undermine Hong Kong’s free and democratic institutions and bring it under Beijing’s control. It’s not clear yet whether the protest will succeed, but it has certainly made…

The FBI is using puppies–PUPPIES!–to foster public support for its civil asset forfeiture program: At the John Locke Foundation, we take a more hard-headed view of the program, see here and here. H/T: Legal Insurrection.

At least according to data cited by David Brooks in a recent New York Times column: We’re living in the middle of a religious revival; it’s just that the movements that are rising are not what we normally call “religion.” The first rising movement is…

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in United States v. Davis, that a federal law authorizing heightened criminal penalties for using, carrying, or possessing a firearm in connection with a “crime of violence or drug trafficking crime” is unconstitutionally vague. Justice Gorsuch starts his opinion for the majority by reminding…