ANDREW KLAVAN’S ONE-STATE SOLUTION: Give The Middle East To The Jews.

I’M SURE THIS COULD ALL BE FIXED WITH A FEW WELL-PLACED FUNDRAISERS: Operation Choke Point Hearing Reveals DOJ Threats And Strong-Arming. Because that’s how things work nowadays.

“RAPE CULTURE” IS A PROPAGANDA-TALKING-POINT LIE: The “Affirmative Consent” Trap: California lawmakers take on “rape culture” at the expense of rights.

ROSS DOUTHAT: The Parent Trap.

Some of these cases have been reported, but some are first-person accounts, and in some the conduct of neighbors and the police and social workers may be more defensible than the anecdote suggests.

But the pattern — a “criminalization of parenthood,” in the words of The Washington Post’s Radley Balko — still looks slightly nightmarish, and there are forces at work here that we should recognize, name and resist.

First is the upper-class, competition-driven vision of childhood as a rigorously supervised period in which unattended play is abnormal, risky, weird. This perspective hasn’t just led to “the erosion of child culture,” to borrow a quote from Hanna Rosin’s depressing Atlantic essay on “The Overprotected Kid”; it has encouraged bystanders and public servants to regard a deviation from constant supervision as a sign of parental neglect.

Second is the disproportionate anxiety over child safety, fed by media coverage of every abduction, every murdered child, every tragic “hot car” death. Such horrors are real, of course, but the danger is wildly overstated: Crime rates are down, abductions and car deaths are both rare, and most of the parents leaving children (especially non-infants) in cars briefly or letting them roam a little are behaving perfectly responsibly.

Third is an erosion of community and social trust, which has made ordinary neighborliness seem somehow unnatural or archaic, and given us instead what Gracy Olmstead’s article in The American Conservative dubs the “bad Samaritan” phenomenon — the passer-by who passes the buck to law enforcement as expeditiously as possible. (Technology accentuates this problem: Why speak to a parent when you can just snap a smartphone picture for the cops?)

And then finally there’s a policy element — the way these trends interact not only with the rise of single parenthood, but also with a welfare system whose work requirements can put a single mother behind a fast-food counter while her kid is out of school.

And, more significantly, a social-welfare bureaucracy that needs these cases to make work for itself. Coupled with a sad abandonment of traditional remedies for overreaching officialdom.

And I wrote something similar on the subject a while back.

RON RADOSH: Nicholas Kristof: The New York Times‘ Apostle of Moral Equivalence.

REVOLUTION IN DOTAGE: How The Left Got Boring. Well, when you replace Hunter S. Thompson with Ezra Klein. . . .

A NEW CAMPUS MOVEMENT: USA Today on Women Against Feminism. The article is pretty much all about how feminists are unhappy about it. But when they say “feminism is just about equality,” well, they’re either lying or lied-to.

Plus: “The way feminists treat the women who disagree with them proves feminism is not as ‘pro-women’ as they would like to believe.”

SCOTT SHACKFORD: Eric Garner’s Arrest and Death About More Than Just a Chokehold.

We should be concerned that the reason why the police swarmed Garner in the first place is getting lost. He allegedly possessed “untaxed cigarettes.” That is it. There is this press focus on how the police took Garner down, and the problem with that focus is the question, “Well, what do you do when a 400-pound man refuses to cooperate when you try to arrest him?” Or to put it another way: Would there be an objection to police using a chokehold to take down and subdue man who was engaged in violent activity harming others? Because you know that’s going to be part of the defense of this behavior.

There needs to be more attention on the absurd reason that a pack of police officers was on top of Garner in the first place: black market cigarettes. It’s a crime that only takes place because of the city’s own oppressive taxation system. It’s a crime that happens when the city makes it too hard for people (especially poor people, of course) to get what they want legally.

Small government does less harm, but provides insufficient opportunities for graft to interest our political class.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Accreditors Are Now Enforcing Political Orthodoxy.

Related: ACTA Files Amicus Brief Challenging Constitutionality of Accreditors’ Actions: Accreditors’ Gatekeeping Role Jeopardizes Accountability Over Billions of Federal Education Dollars.

KYLE SMITH: Could The Next Generation Of Republicans Already Be Here?