incarceration crisis
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On currency, again
If you’re willing to extend credit — whether in dollars or Honey Buns — you control the money supply.
AIG, bank credit, bank lending, bank loans, banking, barter economy, business cycle, central bank, central banking, commissary, credit, currency, debt, debt spending, deregulation, finance, fiscal policy, government bailout, hair grease, Honey Bun, incarceration, incarceration crisis, inflation, insurance bailout, jail, jail bartering, jail economy, jail mail, jail tattoo, lending, loans, mass incarceration, monetary policy, money, Money and Government, money supply, politics of inflation, QE, quantitative easing, recession, Robert Skidelisky, Ryan-Collins, speculation, tattoo, teaching in jail, The Past and Future of Economics, where does money come from
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On the value of religious misinterpretation.
We’re liable to misinterpret old stories when we look at them with modern eyes … but it’s worth knowing what myths might mean in a better world.
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On Charles Foster’s ‘Being a Beast’ and battling the empathy gap.
If Charles Foster can learn, & care, what it’s like to be a badger, all citizens should be able to empathize with the experience of Homo sapiens from other ethnic backgrounds.
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On Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Underground Railroad.’
In Colson Whitehead’s new speculative fiction, he condenses a century of racial injustice into a single fugitive’s journey. I hope readers realize the reality was even worse, that some of these crimes spanned the century and reverberate still.
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On the shifting sands of family, specifically: whose counts?
*These* heroin users have families? How is that any different from the addicts who came before?
addiction, children, developmental biology, drug trade, drug users have families too, family, Francis Slay, Gangster Warlords, graduate school, heroin, incarceration crisis, Ioan Grillo, Lean In, life without law enforcement, mass incarceration, mouse lemur, opiates, painkillers, racism, rehab instead of prison, treatment instead of prison, unethical hiring practices, violence in St. Louis, War on Drugs, working mothers
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On Ioan Grillo’s ‘Gangster Warlords.’
At great personal risk, Ioan Grillo documents the horrific violence fueled by U.S. & European drug policy.
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