Naomi Schaefer Riley

4 days ago | aei.org | Naomi Schaefer Riley

“We’re here! We’re high! Get used to it!” This was what Garth Mullins’s girlfriend was yelling at a protest in the late 1990s in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mullins—who was, at the time, trying to “keep a low profile,” which “isn’t easy for a six-foot-four albino with a hollering girlfriend”—describes this moment as a turning point. He went from someone who saw “heroin as a medication, not an entire identity,” to someone who wanted to lead a movement for the decriminalization of drugs.

1 week ago | aei.org | Naomi Schaefer Riley

What do boys need? According to the bloggers and podcasters in the “manosphere” — the often misogynistic, conspiracy minded, and sometimes bigoted men who have attracted millions of readers and listeners in recent years — boys need to be tougher. They must learn how to be physically fit, more domineering over women and less emotionally vulnerable.

1 week ago | aei.org | Naomi Schaefer Riley

Who wants to work for the Administration for Children’s Services? Almost no one, apparently. According to The Post’s reporting this week, the agency is struggling to retain employees, with almost 30% of the agency’s staff having less than a year on the job. This is hardly surprising. Dominated by a progressive ideology that leaves children in unsafe homes and a leadership that is withholding information about what’s going wrong from the public, ACS is caught in a cycle of failure.

2 weeks ago | aei.org | Naomi Schaefer Riley

Thwack, thwack, thwack. Silence. It was 20 minutes from the end of my weekly tennis clinic — six courts of men and women with an instructor feeding balls on each one — when everything came to a halt. I looked to my left and two middle-aged men were in each other’s faces. One gave the other a quick poke on the shoulder, pushing him back a little. I didn’t see what started it but one called the other a cheater and the other responded with something cruder.

1 month ago | aei.org | Naomi Schaefer Riley

How do we as a society make up for past wrongs? Last week, Los Angeles County reached a tentative agreement to pay $4 billion in order to settle more than 6,800 sexual abuse claims. Filed in the wake of a 2020 law, which allows victims of childhood abuse to sue their abusers even after the statute of limitations has expired, some of these claims go back as far as the 1950s. Most of the harm occurred at juvenile detention facilities and at the MacLaren Children’s Center.