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May 2019

May 07, 2019

A Child’s Garden of Anarchy

A couple years ago, my friend's toddler invented a game he could make his mother...

December 2016

December 19, 2016

Bluff Your Way Out of the European Economic Community

Or, What did Brexit look like in 1988? Months ago, in the halcyon days of...

November 2016

November 08, 2016

“Net Worth of White Households in DC Region is 81 Times That of Black Households”: Washington Post

basically runs a press release from the Urban Institute, but since I wanted to read...

November 04, 2016

The American Conservative Election Symposium–I’m in This

In a sense, we're all in this: A good magazine presents a robust discussion of the...

October 2016

October 12, 2016

“To End the Affordable Housing Crisis, Legalize Main Street”: Jonathan Coppage

in the Washington Post: In a sign that market solutions for the United States’ growing...

July 2016

July 18, 2016

“Haunting Photos Show Monks Returning to Abbey–500 Years After It Was Destroyed by Henry VIII”

And it's St Aelred's abbey, too: A hauntingly beautiful set of photos, appearing on DailyMail, shows...

July 18, 2016

“The Gun Control We Deserve”: Terrific article

at n+1: At the deepest level, the schizoid landscape of American gun control is the...

July 11, 2016

The Relics of Richard III: An older but provocative post on medieval bones and modern worship

by Eleanor Parker aka A Clerk of Oxford. The rest of this post is quite...

March 2016

March 09, 2016

The Administrative State vs. the People

Two links. First, "Four ways occupational licensing damages social mobility." I know it's easy to...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

“Book Recommendation: Poor Relief in England 1350 – 1600”: The Dorothy Option

relevance! ...McIntosh also takes care to outline the change in attitude toward the poor as...

January 2016

January 20, 2016

Don’t Medicalize My Eschaton: Five Links from a Criminal Justice System

Let's start with an op-ed in the Gotham Gazette showing how easy it is to...

January 04, 2016

“‘Hamilton’ and the Romance of Government”: My take

for AmCon: I’ve finally heard “Hamilton,” the Broadway hip-hop musical about the first Secretary of...

December 2015

December 06, 2015

In the Year of the Dragon: Ross Douthat Writes About Guns

so I don't have to. He makes his point in his characteristically careful, suggestive style,...

December 02, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System: Better DAs, Union vs. Heroism, Divisive Forgiveness, The Treatment-Industrial Complex, And What About the Crime Problem?

"How to Run Against a Tough-on-Crime District Attorney--And Win": District attorneys and the prosecutors who...

August 2015

August 04, 2015

Our Enemy the State: Link Roundup

"Obama's Economics Team Is Taking on One of America's Most Underrated Economic Problems": Occupational licensing...

July 2015

July 12, 2015

“The Problem with NYC’s Bail Reform”: The Marshall Project

posts: ...Guilty or innocent, the urge to intervene in the lives of those we shovel...

July 12, 2015

Walter Olson on Ferguson and Oregon Cake Bakers

at Overlawyered: Has anyone noted that the “Ferguson syndrome” of ruinously escalating fines for petty...

June 2015

June 14, 2015

Tomorrow’s Shuttered Prisons and Yesterday’s Shuttered Pools: A Cops and Prisons Link Roundup

"When Bail Is Out of Defendant's Reach, Other Costs Mount": By the time Mr. Torrence...

May 2015

May 31, 2015

From Dinaw Mengestu, “The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears”

Lying on the grass on the edge of Dupont Circle, away from the shade cast...

May 30, 2015

“St Louis Co. Towns Continue to Treat Residents Like ATMs”: Radley Balko

Hey man, people rarely beat on ATMs: ...It isn’t difficult to guess which groups of...

March 2015

March 03, 2015

Quick and Cheap Reviews of Quick and Cheap Movies

Or, a quick fix of slick flicks. Devil's Pass: Found-footage Dyatlov Pass Incident investigation. Some...

January 2015

January 06, 2015

Radley Balko’s Civil Liberties Predictions for 2015

See if you can guess the sci-fi twist. Sometimes, real life can be stranger than...

January 03, 2015

The Carceral State: Dept of Things That Aren’t Solutions

Three links. Happy New Year! Not a solution: police body cameras: ...Despite the push for...

December 2014

December 13, 2014

Links from a Prison Nation

A round-up of stuff I've been reading. "The Protester": Raven Rakia writes a powerful piece...

December 04, 2014

“Obama’s Big Idea: Let’s Hike Federal Cop Subsidies”

Walter Olson at Cato: President Obama’s newly announced police-reform package lives up to one’s worst...

November 2014

November 25, 2014

“Washington Bails on Demilitarization After Ferguson”

Seasons Greetings: Lawmakers vowed changes to the Pentagon programs that deliver military-grade equipment to local...

November 07, 2014

Gouging the Families of Prisoners; and “The Janitors of Good Wishes”

a post with lots to say about political praxis as well as, you know, gouging...

October 2014

October 09, 2014

A Powerful Story of Friendship, Marriage, And Mental Struggles After Wrongful Imprisonment

by Liliana Segura: On a snowy evening in late March, just over a year after...

September 2014

September 17, 2014

In Which I Am the Last Person to Read Radley Balko’s Epic Report on St. Louis Co. Policing as Profiting from Poverty

and I'm posting it here just in case I'm actually second-to-last. ...The officer found that...

September 06, 2014

“Mom Arrested for (Maybe) Hanging Up on Cop While Her Missing Daughter Plays at Church”: Reason

gives this story a much different headline from many mainstream media outlets. Let's find out...