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April 6, 2017|John F. Pfaff, Locked In, mass incarceration, Prison Reform, War on Drugs

Facts and Myths of Mass Incarceration

by Barry Latzer|

 

 

John F. Pfaff’s Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform is probably the best book on so-called mass incarceration to date. Its great strength is that it is empirically grounded. Pfaff, a professor of law at Fordham, doesn’t cherry-pick data to support some a priori theory, he grapples with the hard realities that the data present. As he well understands, this makes his argument for reducing imprisonment a very tough sell.

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October 29, 2015|Aurel Kolnai, Christianity, Jeffrey Goldberg, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Prison Reform

Reforming the ‘Extra-Human’ in Angola Prison

by Graham McAleer|

In 1944, the Hungarian moral and political philosopher Aurel Kolnai (1900-1973) wrote an essay that is indispensable reading for anyone wishing to understand today’s culture. Whether you are pondering the Left/Right split in our politics, the riddle that is Pope Francis, or the peculiar character of Western civilization and its ability to forestall its latest enemies, Kolnai’s “The Humanitarian Versus the Religious Attitude”[1] will help.

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June 28, 2013|Arbitration, Dispensing Power, Immigration Reform, Prison Reform, Shelby County, Windsor

Friday Roundup, June 28th

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

Arbitration has obviously been in the news lately with the Court recently upholding in America Express v. Italian Colors that arbitration clause class action waivers are enforceable despite the high costs of bringing an individual claim in many instances. In our Books section this week, Jim Chen's essay "Arbitration as an Article of Constitutional Faith" reviews Peter Rutledge's Arbitration and the Constitution. Chen focuses on the tension between the procedural rights of the Constitution and arbitration itself. David Henderson at Econ Lib provides an interesting review of prison sentencing reform in unlikely places. Roundup of Windsor analysis: Randy Barnett, Sandy Levinson, Michael…

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Book Reviews

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.

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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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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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