More on Sexual Harassment:  With the recent launch of the "Me Too" movement, celebrities, actors and feminists are supposedly giving voice to millions of women victimized by a patriarchy which exploits them.  A compelling City Journal piece by Heather MacDonald questions this narrative, suggesting that the dramatic generational shift in cultural norms since the 1960s has created this problem.  "Feminists cannot acknowledge the divide between men and women when it comes to sex and sensibility. Doing so would violate what Steven Pinker calls the blank slate doctrine, a foundation stone of modern liberalism. One of that doctrine's core tenets is that 'differences between men and women have nothing to do with biology but are socially constructed in their entirety,' "  MacDonald suggests that today's cultural expectations regarding interactions between men and women, which are entirely the product of the women's liberation movement, have actually put women at a distinct disadvantage.  

Are Property Crimes Really Declining in CA?  Beginning in 2011, California has adopted three major sentencing reforms that liberal academics assured us would not increase crime.  Governor Brown's Realignment law, Proposition 47 and Proposition 57 severely reduced the consequences for all but the most violent crimes, substituting rehabilitation programs for lengthy incarceration, no matter how many times a criminal re-offends.  But after roughly two decades of declining crime, violent crime  increased in three of the last five years while property crime increased after Realignment became law, then began dropping after the 2014 adoption of Proposition 47, which converted the theft of property valued at less than $950 from a felony to a misdemeanor, no matter how many times a thief steals.  Are property crimes actually declining or is something else in play.   Michelle Hanisee, President of the Association of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorneys explains why arrests for property crimes have gone down.