Newt Gingrich and Pat Nolan in the Washington Post on the need for less prison. We urge conservative legislators to lead the way in addressing an issue often considered off-limits to reform: prisons.
Month: January 2011
Vacation
It’s my nameday, school is out, and my wife and I are whizzing through the air in an amazing flying machine that but 110 years ago, was an unimaginable fantasy. (When this post comes out, we’ll be on our way to Dubai, en-route to Bangkok.) My second book, In Defense of Flogging, is all-but done. It’s been a slog. Last…
Then and Now: Fall River
This one is almost too much to believe. And not for the normal reasons of becoming abandoned. Fall River, Mass, is still doing OK, I think. But not what used to be the heart of downtown. And now. It doesn’t look like the same place. But it is. Where’s that beautiful building on the right I take to be City…