“I Believe in America”
Fifty Years of ‘The Godfather‘
Graham Daseler
· 14 min read
Crime
A collection of 105 posts
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
The Transmogrification of Harvey Weinstein
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
Daniel Kriegman
· 36 min read
The Acquittal of the Colston Four
Both the right to freedom of expression and the institution of trial by jury came under intense scrutiny just three weeks after Raab’s article, when a Bristol jury acquitted four young people of criminal damage, even though they had all admitted tearing down a city centre statue.
Matthew Scott
· 14 min read
The Rittenhouse Trial: A Legal Scholar Responds
Our society cannot and will not survive a polity that permits armed children to walk the streets and kill with impunity.
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.
· 16 min read
Madness for Decivilization
Mental hospitals emerged at a time, Foucault argued, when the state was seeking to impose rational order on societies.
Michael Shellenberger
· 14 min read
Louise Penny’s Armand Gamache: Quebec’s Too-Perfect Police Officer
Detective stories are so popular in our culture that those of us lacking experience of the real life variety sometimes have difficulty telling fact and fiction apart
John Allore
· 9 min read
The Status Game: Male, Grandiose, Humiliated
When grandiose men are humiliated, the fallout turns catastrophic.
Will Storr
· 15 min read
Charles Murray's 'Facing Reality'—A Review
Facing Reality attempts to force into view data that many Americans would rather not acknowledge.
Razib Khan
· 12 min read
Are Activists Protecting Asians from Hate—or Protecting Their Narrative of White Supremacy from Criticism?
But often it seems that means and end have become reversed, and that these crimes now serve as a prop in the larger ideological campaign against our supposedly white-supremacy-saturated culture—a campaign that Asians themselves are now being pressured to join.
Hai Di Nguyen
· 11 min read
When Will Activists (and the Media) Get Honest About Police Shootings?
Minutes before Derek Chauvin was convicted on all three counts of murder and manslaughter, Ma’Khia Bryant, a black teenage girl in Columbus, Ohio, was shot dead by police. Almost immediately, enraged protestors gathered outside police headquarters. “Say Her Name!” they chanted. The New York Times reported that the girl’
Arthur Jeon
· 14 min read
The Ugly History of Rape Panics
As sexual violence was reaching historic lows, the narrative was demanding the opposite. The definition of sexual violence began to be broadened, and so the numbers grew.
Jerry Barnett
· 11 min read
Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review
Indeed, the title misleads: On Property focuses more on the historical threads linking the slave plantations to the abuses of modern policing than it does on its purported subject matter.
Jonathan Salem-Wiseman
· 8 min read