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Saving Punishment

Jim was holding his one-year-old son while smoking meth freebase when the oily liquid spilled on the little boy, badly burning him. Technically, it was an accident; the proximate cause was the breakdown in the electrical signals between his besotted brain and his fumbling fingers. Even in that . . . . Continue Reading »

Crime and the Cure of the Soul

Those of us who believe that our social and political order rests on moral foundations applaud William Bennett for his Index of Leading Cultural Indicators. The Index graphically exposes the alarming extent to which those moral foundations have been eroded. No more compelling evidence of crisis . . . . Continue Reading »

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