Should you just happen to be in Sydney next week, wonder over to the Opera House and check out the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. I’ll be there, spreading dangerous thoughts about flogging and the war on drugs. Did I mention they’re flying me over there all fancy? Like in business class? Classy, those Aussies are! It should be a blast.
Part One of a interview of me by Michelle Brunet at Criminal Justice Schools Infois online. If they’re nice enough to interview me, I’ll be nice enough to tell you about it!
Some of my old police friends my recognize these stories from Slate.com, which are taken from Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan’s soon-to-be bestselling The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office. Tim knows my story well, since his help and editorial vision made Cop in the Hood the rip-roaring success it is.
Check this out by Michael Corbin in Baltimore’s City Paper: Better of Two Evils. Makes me sound like such a intellectual bad-ass. And potty mouth. Fuckin’-A! Seriously though, it is very powerfully written. Makes me want to re-read my own books.
Caleb Kennedy wrote a nice feature on me for the Daily Princetonian. “I was not particularly happy at Princeton,” [Moskos] said, explaining that he felt much of the student body came from a “New England prep school culture” that he was not used to. But I loved my professors. And one of them called me a “star student.” It makes…
I’ll be on my favorite intelligent TV show again this Saturday, 8-10AM (Eastern Time). MSNBC. Man oh man do I hate the idea of setting my alarm for 6:30AM. But it should be fun.
I’ll be on Hot 97’s Street Soldiers with Lisa Evers this coming Sunday morning (it was prerecorded today). Rounding out the roundtable is Noel Leader, co-founder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, and Norman Seabrook, President of the New York City Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association. It’s a lively hour. You’ll hear me question Brooklyn rapper Uncle Murda as…
I’ve always loved doing radio interviews and never been keen on TV. Partly because most TV is so stupid. Why should I put on a suit to get driven to Manhattan (they don’t like it if you make your own way to the studio) to stare into a camera and then say a talking point to somebody I can’t see…
Tune in tomorrow (Saturday) around 8:40AM (Eastern Time) to MSNBC.
One of Mother Jones’s favorite books of 2011 is In Defense of Flogging. It makes a fabulous Christmas stocking stuffer, for all you Old Calendarists out there (just 10 shopping days left).