There Is No Defense for Looting

It is one thing to peacefully march against injustice, and quite another to burn down what others built up. . . . When my oldest daughter was very young, she asked why we have to pay for things. “Why can’t everything be free?” I explained that if everything were free, no one would work or … Read more

Looting Goes Mainstream on NPR

With lawlessness and organized looting threatening to take down Joe Biden (which is why I’ve been calling the riots “spontaneous pro-Trump rallies”—have they filed their in-kind contribution reports with the FEC by the way?), we’ve seen leading Democrats like AOC say looting is just desperate people trying to get necessities. Like flat screen TVs and … Read more

Looters, Lockdowners, and the Law

“Coronavirus hasn’t been a thing since Friday,” said a friend. “The new story is racism.” Following American media culture can make one’s head spin. For three months, all we heard was the danger to life and civilization presented by a novel virus. Millions will die! Few will be spared! There will be unprecedented suffering unless … Read more

The Answer Isn’t a Free Lunch

If progressives know what’s good for cities such as Minneapolis, why have they done such a poor job governing them? What if they don’t want anything? An NBC producer posted a piece of video early Tuesday morning that documented some of the looting in Manhattan, with the looters piling their loot into a Rolls-Royce Cullinan … Read more