‘Miranda’ Versus America
When the great Thomas Sowell retired from writing commentary in 2016, he wrapped up his farewell column this way: With all the advances of blacks […]
Desperate Hours in Florida
In the 1955 crime drama “The Desperate Hours,” a businessman and his family are taken hostage by a gang of escaped convicts. A struggle of […]
Guns Banned: Women and Minorities Suffer Most
An old joke tells how various newspapers would report the end of the world. The New York Times says: “World ends: Story and analysis on […]
Another Day, Another Massacre, No Movement on Crime
Another day, another massacre, another argument. Seems like only yesterday we were arguing about the slaying of 26 people in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Before that, […]
Border Wall is Necessary But Not Sufficient
Juan Leonardo Quintero was a pretty good yard man. His employer, Camp Landscaping of Deer Park, Texas, valued his services so much that the boss […]
More American Carnage
It’s too soon to comment in any detail about what happened at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival Sunday night in Las Vegas. There’s […]
Mr. President, Don’t Forget to Stop the Carnage
The United States is reaching a grim milestone: One million murdered Americans. The FBI just released the Uniform Crime Report for 2016, and it contains […]
Don’t Blame the Kneelers—Blame Those Who Brainwashed Them
The brouhaha over political demonstrations during the National Anthem makes me think of a scene from “Junior Bonner,” a 1972 Sam Peckinpah film about rodeo […]
Is Capital Punishment Christian?
“A murderer forfeits his life, and it is right that he should be killed by the sword.” So said Martin Luther, and his argument to […]
Authoritarianism, Crime, and Freedom
In January, I took up Donald Trump’s extraordinary promise to bring the crime and violence we know today to a quick end. I argued that […]
Crime, Race, and the Thin Blue Line
Four decades ago, I worked in oil and gas exploration. I was laying a seismic survey line through a community outside of Dallas when an […]
Robert E. Lee: Saladin of the South
Here’s a little anecdote from Hollywood’s Golden Age that contains a lesson for us today. This is how the Egyptian scholar Amro Ali tells it: […]
To Address Crime, Trump Should Recall Will Rogers
Donald Trump won the presidency by gaining the support of people who had previously voted Democratic, and he will lose their support if he does […]
Crime, the Gallows, and Trump
In Henry Fielding’s novel Tom Jones, one Ensign Northerton quarrels with our hero and, without warning, deals him a seemingly mortal blow. Placed under arrest, […]