criminal justice reform

April 10, 2020|Aristotle, bail, Criminal Justice, criminal justice reform, Thomas Aquinas

The Just Restraint of the Vicious

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For some contemporary criminal justice reformers, devotion to ideology leads to illogical conclusions about human nature and character change.

April 6, 2020|Crime, criminal justice reform, Punishment, Scottish Sentencing Council

Too Immature to be Punished?

by Theodore Dalrymple|

Image by Mark Strozier via Flickr CC.

When I look back on my own life, I think I knew by the age of ten that one should not strangle old ladies in their beds.

August 30, 2019|campaign spending, criminal justice reform, David Koch, Libertarian Party, Republicanism

David Koch, Political Philanthropist

by Greg Weiner|

David H. Koch accepts the Laureate Award at the Lincoln Center Spring Gala at Alice Tully Hall on May 2, 2017 in New York City.(Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Lincoln Center)

David Koch is best remembered as a philanthropist for the arts, medical research, museums, public architecture and, among myriad other causes, politics.

December 12, 2018|criminal justice reform, First Step Act, Tom Cotton

Two Cheers for Criminal Justice Reform

by Barry Latzer|

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The so-called "First Step Act" offers some worthy reforms, but nothing that would satisfy progressive fantasies.

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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