Judicial reforms in Britian will soon allow pre-sentencing reports for cases involving “an ethnic minority, cultural minority, and/or faith minority” offender. With these reports meant to argue for a reduction in punishment, Frank Haviland observes in The European Conservative that the unmistakable belief behind the move is that “only white men deserve to feel the full force of the law.” Welcome to two-tier justice, British-style.

Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.


