Time to end Baltimore’s policing consent decree Baltimore Sun, March 15,2024 By George Liebmann Cities with consent decrees like Baltimore’s are likely to have higher homicide rates because two of the principal effects of such decrees are to discourage police recruitment and prevent proactive policing. Competent police commissioners can reform police; insulated federal judges cannot. […]
The New York Sun When Presidents Could Be Quietly Effective Biographies like Smith’s and Liebmann’s yearn for presidents such as Taft and Ford, who spent more time on the substance rather than the presentation of public policy. CARL ROLLYSON Wednesday, June 7, 2023 05:30:00 am ‘The Tafts’ By George W. Liebmann Twelve Tables Press, 432 […]
SUBSCRIBELOGIN MENU American Spectator logo Firearms Control: It’s Time for a Common-Sense Bargain AMERICA RIPE FOR REFORM Firearms Control: It’s Time for a Common-Sense Bargain Trading an assault weapons ban for reducing federal police presence. by GEORGE LIEBMANN November 29, 2023, 11:05 PM The last 50 years have confirmed Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson’s warning against […]
Welcome to the TLS Letters to the Editor The US Constitution December 1, 2023 Lawrence Douglas’s review of Tyranny of the Minority by Steven Livitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, on the American Constitution (November 3), is infected by presentism. In the 1940s people criticized the electoral college because it was thought to give an advantage to […]
Menu The American Conservative Logo The Road Not Taken, EV Edition George Liebmann TheAmericanConservative.com,Oct 28, 2023 12:01 AM Anyone contemplating the American response to the alleged global warning crisis must be bemused by its allocation of priorities. It is conceded that the increased American use of natural gas in place of coal and petroleum and […]
George Liebmann To: The Democrats and Labor by George Liebmann It is time to consider the non-existent Labor Agenda of the anti_Trump Party. Doing so will convince the impartial that while the Republicans are vexed and encumbered by one man, the Democrats have almost entirely succumbed to an ideological epidemic When there was widespread unemployment […]
www.calvertinstitute.org A New Affirmative Action by George Liebmann About a year ago, a major newspaper, mingling its editorial and news pages as is now usual, published charts showing flat Black enrollment at a number of major universities in an effort to influence the then-pending Supreme Court affirmative action litigation. There was no qualitative assessment including […]
The American Conservative A Built-In Solution to America’s Housing Shortage Easing restrictions on accessory apartments will allow us to maximize the housing stock we already have. George Liebmann Jul 21, 2023 12:01 AM Thirty-three years ago, I published an article urging states and localities to relax zoning restrictions on accessory apartments and home occupations. After […]
Dobbs Comes to Maryland The state and localities are wrestling with post-Roe realities. George Liebmann The AmericanConservativeOnlineJul 5, 2023 12:01 AM The Dobbs decision brought an end to the federal regime of abortion-on-demand, with only a vague “mental health” standard previously limiting third-trimester abortions. Abortions are no longer available with certainty. The screams that the […]
Maryland’s Ill-Considered Jobs Program Maryland’s urban youth desperately need opportunities, and Governor Moore’s new program doesn’t deliver. George Liebmann,thyeamericanconservativeonline Apr 4, 2023 12:01 AM With great fanfare and much-sought national publicity, Governor Wes Moore of Maryland has unveiled a “a year of service” program for high school graduates. It amounts to a token program whose […]