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Category Archives: Heather Mac Donald
After Cathy’s Table: How Digital Platforms Reshaped a Generation of Professional Writers
Cathy Seipp (1957-2007) died in March 2007, just as the media world she had anticipated was becoming normal. She had spent the previous decade moving between magazines, newspapers, online columns and her own blog while gathering around her a Los … Continue reading
Posted in Amy Alkon, Blogging, Cathy Seipp, Heather Mac Donald, Hugh Hewitt, Journalism, Matt Welch, Mickey Kaus, Moxie
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The Bowl of Light: Heather Mac Donald’s Hero System
“Society is a symbolic action system, a structure of statuses and roles, customs and rules for behavior, designed to serve as a vehicle for earthly heroism.” — Ernest Becker (1924-1974), The Denial of Death I. New Haven, 1980 The room … Continue reading
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Heather Mac Donald: Defector from Theory, Guardian of Standards, Theorist of Elite Self-Sabotage
“I wasted a huge portion of my time at Yale on something that was a fiction, a self-indulgent pastime of a few professors who had lost interest in conveying the beauties of literature.” — Heather Mac Donald, in conversation with … Continue reading
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Interview with Heather Mac Donald
John Derbyshire wrote in 2006 for National Review’s The Corner: This is 3 years old but I hadn’t seen it before. It’s an interview that blogger Luke Ford had with one of my favorite conservatives, and one of the most … Continue reading
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Seething Mob Shuts Down Speech by Pro-Cop Writer Heather Mac Donald as Event Turns Violent
Heat Street: An “angry mob” of protesters effective shut down a speech by a pro-law enforcement scholar at Claremont McKenna College on Friday, surrounding the building, screaming obscenities and banging on windows. Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald, who is … Continue reading
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‘FBI Data: From 2005 to 2014, Black perpetrators accounted for 40% of U.S. police killings despite being only 13% of the population.’
Blacks and Muslims punch above their weight. Daily Wire: 5 Statistics You Need To Know About Cops Killing Blacks 1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015. According to data compiled by The Washington Post, 50 … Continue reading
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The Dissident Right Needs Better Speakers
I’ve heard Heather speak many times and she’s always struck me as articulate and impressive. A friend says: “What Heartiste meant is that she is not enough of a demagogue when she speaks. In fact, for the right audience, she … Continue reading
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Ferguson’s Unanswered Questions
Heather Mac Donald writes: But the most ubiquitous “Ferguson is racist” meme was the most familiar: the police force is too white. Four of Ferguson’s 53 officers are black. This imbalance must be the result of racism and must itself … Continue reading
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Race-Baiting The Trayvon Martin Case
Anyone up in arms about this case does not have a life. We do not know what happened yet. To pile on to this case and say incendiary things reveals that you jump at the least stimuli and use it … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Heather Mac Donald, Race
Tagged black killers, frequent role, heather mac donald, hispanic males, homicide victims, victimization rates
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The Incompetence Of The Federal Bench As Demonstrated By Susan Bolton’s Arizona Ruling
Heather Mac Donald posts: In enjoining Arizona’s landmark immigration law, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton maintains the Obama administration’s carefully cultivated fiction: that what concerns the White House regarding S.B. 1070 is its effect on legal, rather than illegal, aliens. … Continue reading
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Tagged congressional mandates, heather mac donald, immigration inquiries, immigration status, legal aliens, legal immigrants
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