A collection of 62 posts
Perhaps the most damaging aspect of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s racial-equity regime has been the perception of racial unfairness it created in one of America’s most racially diverse cities.
Exploring biases and criticisms in the perception of crime victims, from robbery to rape.
The inflammatory rhetoric that attempts to link hideous crimes like the recent shooting with legitimate concerns is misleading and misguided.
Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.
A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.
Progressive thinking on urban violence is so unrealistic it is dystopian.
Jim Garrison’s theory of the presidential assassination was based on false evidence and homophobic paranoia. Yet many still believe he was right.
Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility.
The untold story of Upheaval, a prison band that recorded one of the most sought-after soul singles of the 1970s.
Fifty Years of ‘The Godfather‘
Falcone, Borsellino, and the legacy of Italy’s long and bitter war on organized crime.
When comparing state to state, and nation to nation, more firearms usually means more firearms-related deaths
When my mother called me in from play one afternoon to meet the man seated in our living room, her introduction was redundant—I immediately knew who he was. And, right off, I did not like him. His absence had been a painful matter in my life. The house that
I was a good friend of Harvey Weinstein during his early years as a concert promoter, before he became Harvey Weinstein, movie mogul. We subsequently drifted apart, and while Harvey went on to find astronomic success in Hollywood, I worked as the chief psychologist at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for
Mental hospitals emerged at a time, Foucault argued, when the state was seeking to impose rational order on societies.