The Danger of Anonymity and Secret Courts
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” ~ Thomas Jefferson The role of the press in sexual assault cases is Continue Reading
State Funded Kangaroo Courts on Campus
“We will now deliberate and return with a guilty verdict.” ~Judith Draper, 3rd Rock from the Sun On February 27th, the Canadian federal government published the 2018 Budget. Titled “Equality and Continue Reading
The Myth of Collective Male Guilt
“We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.” ~ Thomas Szasz In response to the #MeToo movement, male “allies” have come up with some hashtags of their Continue Reading
Misleading Justice With Sexual Assault Statistics
“My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.” ~ Sonia Sotomayor Recently, the Continue Reading
The Epistemology of #Believing
“What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined.” ~ Carl Sagan The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines epistemology as “the study of knowledge and justified Continue Reading