Cure-alls and Remedies
Long before white Americans felt like their society had abandoned them, Black Americans knew the feeling. Just like whites do today, some Black Americans responded to earlier superfluousness by ” clinging to guns and religion ” to use Barack Obama’s famous analysis. (cf. Kinsley gaffe ) Here’s James Baldwin, describing the Nation of Islam: “I’ve…
Well, he’s not. But that’s the title of his new blog . (Apparently he is challenging me for the title of “Most Contrite Fallibilist.” He’s even taken the nom de plume of “Wrongzo.” Bastard .) For his first substantive post, ” What should we mock about when we mock about guns? ” he parodies my…
[caption id=”attachment_3023″ align=”aligncenter” width=”300″] Old Ohio Penitentiary by J. Harris Day[/caption] This semester I taught a course on crime and punishment, and in part out of competition with my colleague Seth Vannatta , I set out to give a final presentation on the dimensions of the course. This is the presentation I wrote. Introduction…