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Normalizing Domestic Terrorism
I guess I’m becoming less and less unique all the time, but I have personal friends who have been touched directly by a mass murder, perpetrated as a hate crime by a right-wing extremist. By "touched directly" I mean they were there being shot at; one of them tackled the shooter. In my case this … Continue reading Normalizing Domestic Terrorism
Ashamed…in a Land Where Justice is a Game
Paul Manafort just received a 47 month sentence for multiple crimes, a slap on the wrist from a judge who was appointed by Ronald Reagan and gave an impression of bias during Manafort's trial. Likely Manafort will serve time in a white collar prison, and quite possibly his associate and frequent co-conspirator Mr. Trump will … Continue reading Ashamed…in a Land Where Justice is a Game
A Song to Dishonor Joe Arpaio
In the strange world we inhabit, the insights I can offer as scholar seem (at least for the moment) to be assigned significant value. Sometimes I complain about the relative value ascribed to scholarship compared to a whole range of other things—say, building prisons or price-gouging people who need life-saving medicines—yet at the end of … Continue reading A Song to Dishonor Joe Arpaio
