The Demise of Trial by Jury

From the O. J. Simpson trial to Britain’s “swift courts,” justice now bends to identity—proof that without shared culture, the scales no longer balance. Justice isn’t blind anymore: Multiculturalism has made impartial justice impossible. “Law grows with the growth, and strengthens with the strength of the people, and finally dies away as the nation loses its nationality.” — Friedrich Carl von SavignyOn Tuesday, October 3, 1995, the verdict in the O. J. Simpson criminal trial was broadcast live across the globe, a truly defining moment of the late twentieth century. In the now-iconic split-screen imagery, as the words “not guilty”...