How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
We can spend less money on police, courts, and corrections and have half as much crime and half as many people behind bars
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Mark Kleiman.
Being asked to guest-blog for Ta-Nehisi Coates is a good news/bad news joke. The good news is that it's insanely flattering, like being asked to pinch-hit for Babe Ruth. The bad news is that's insanely flattering precisely because TNC is, in my professional view, one of the great contemporary prose stylists, so it's hard to live up to the assignment.
On the theory that, by sampling from the top percentile of my writing, I can at least avoid dragging down the average too obviously, I've decided to reprise some of my greatest hits
