Officially the penitentiary has existed since the eighteenth century, although human beings have imprisoned one another since the beginning of recorded time. The concept... Read More

Why are 76 percent of people held in jails not convicted of any crime? Because of the cash bail system that is only found... Read More

BY ADAM GOPNIK BASIC BOOKS, 2019 272 PP., $26.00 The late pundit Irving Kristol, whose career began in left-wing politics and ended in neoconservatism,... Read More

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BY SIMON TAM TROUBLEMAKER PRESS, 2019 326 PP.; $26.99 Debates on free speech nowadays tend to revolve around whether one should be free to... Read More

When a person mentions the word reparations, many conjure up an image of a zig-zagging, hundred-mile trail of black people lined up at the... Read More

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One of the legal foundations of the freewheeling internet is under attack in Washington, DC. When the internet first got rolling a quarter century... Read More