All Men Behaving Badly
Just six months after it was released by Netflix, Anna Kendrick’s feminist film about a real serial killer already looks like an ideological relic.
Charlotte Allen
· 23 min read
Crime
A collection of 64 posts
The Unending Search for Racism
The debate about Rickard Andersson’s killing spree has been informed by an unhealthy discourse about race and immigration in Sweden.
Dan Korn
· 7 min read
The Trial of Daniel Penny
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.
Eli Steele
· 17 min read
Victim Blaming Revisited
Exploring biases and criticisms in the perception of crime victims, from robbery to rape.
Richard B. Felson
· 6 min read
Killed for a Rainbow Flag: Are Critics of Trans Ideology Responsible?
The inflammatory rhetoric that attempts to link hideous crimes like the recent shooting with legitimate concerns is misleading and misguided.
T.M. Murray
· 6 min read
The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part II: The Legal and Media Circus
Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.
Andrew Hammel
· 53 min read
The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part I: A Straightforward Murder Case
A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.
Andrew Hammel
· 45 min read
Chicago’s Criminal Irresponsibility
Progressive thinking on urban violence is so unrealistic it is dystopian.
Jukka Savolainen
· 8 min read
How New Orleans Became a Hive of JFK Conspiracism
Jim Garrison’s theory of the presidential assassination was based on false evidence and homophobic paranoia. Yet many still believe he was right.
Michel Jacques Gagné
· 15 min read
Guilty and Insane
Dissociative Identity Disorder and the riddle of human responsibility.
Daniel Kriegman
· 20 min read
Lost Soul Behind Bars
The untold story of Upheaval, a prison band that recorded one of the most sought-after soul singles of the 1970s.
Max Wilson
· 21 min read
“I Believe in America”
Fifty Years of ‘The Godfather‘
Graham Daseler
· 14 min read
Honorable Men
Falcone, Borsellino, and the legacy of Italy’s long and bitter war on organized crime.
Maura Cremin
· 21 min read
The Cause of America’s Gun-Death Epidemic? It’s Guns
When comparing state to state, and nation to nation, more firearms usually means more firearms-related deaths
Michael Shermer
· 11 min read
AWOL Black Fathers
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
John Washington
· 13 min read