In a piece last Friday in the News Sentinel (Knoxville, TN), Mark Harmon, a professor of journalism at the University of Tennessee and a member of the Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee, had an article attacking Dr. John Lott and the Crime Prevention...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Investor's Business Daily on the congressional votes to end Obama's ban on some retirees owning guns. The piece starts this way: Do you know anyone who has decided to let someone else manage their finances? Just before...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at National Review that responds to a recent op-ed that Heather Mac Donald had in the Wall Street Journal where she blamed Chicago's crime problems on President Obama's policies. Last week, President Donald Trump again expressed concern...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News where he explains how to evaluate the Democrat's reaction to Trump's Supreme Court pick. Here is a simple rule of thumb: you can judge the caliber of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee by how angry the Democrats get. The...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal. These are just a few of the nutty things in the new EU rules on gun ownership that were approved Wednesday by a Parliamentary committee. The full Parliament still has to vote on the bill. Below are the rules...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Fox News on the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday regarding Senator Jeff Sessions. Unfortunately, Senator Dianne Feinstein delayed the vote on Sessions citing concerns about his views on women. The piece below...
With the debate heating up in New Mexico over Michael Bloomberg's push for Universal Background checks, Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in the newspaper for the state's capitol. Let’s say a stalker threatens a female friend of yours. She asks you if she can borrow your...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the Daily Caller that discussed Jonah Peretti's past of impersonating At the moment, media outlets want nothing to do with BuzzFeed, the “news” website that published unverified, “fake” allegations against Donald Trump. The...
Dr. John Lott has another piece at National Review about the New York Times continuing to disseminate clear false claims by the New York Times (though this could just as well be written about other publications such as The Hill): . For the fourth time in less than two...
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Dr. John Lott had an op-ed in the Orange County Register on California Politifact's biases on the gun control issue. The piece started this way: . . . Take a couple of PolitiFact California’s two most recent evaluations concerning gun violence. • “Since the Sandy...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at National Review on the current debate that the shooting at the Ft Lauderdale Airport was due to a lack of resources for psychiatric services. The piece starts this way:' Pouring money into mental-health care won’t stop mass public...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece on Chicago disastrous policing policies at Real Clear Policy. The piece starts this way: Chicago is a bloody mess. Last year, Chicago had 762 homicides — more than New York and Los Angeles combined. This represents an astounding 57...