Two pieces that grabbed my attention recently:

Why Not Hang Them All: The Virtues of Inefficient Punishment, by David Friedman, son of Milton. (JSTOR, or Google Scholar.) Have you ever wondered why criminal justice systems around the world rely so heavily on imprisonment, despite the existence of more efficient alternatives such as fines [...]

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I don’t really understand what people mean when they talk about the “Amherst bubble”. I never experience the feeling of being taken outside this bubble, of my horizon suddenly broadening, if only for a precious short while. This lack of revelatory experience probably stems either from my never actually leaving the [...]

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