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A Harvard criminal-law scholar's posthumous indictment of how American justice went from local, jury-driven and comparatively lenient to vast, racially skewed and run by prosecutors. Stuntz blames both the Warren Court's procedure-first rulings and legislators' sentencing laws, and nobody comes out clean.
March 16, 2026
Sean Carroll's Mindscape episode on surveillance, Gwern's writing process revealed, and Martha Nussbaum on why fear is toxic to democracy.
July 20, 2026
Dynomight on the coming end of pseudonymity, Brian Potter scores 239 laws against their promises, and a Sears-catalog rewrite of American growth.
July 13, 2026
Scott Alexander's team publishes its plan for AI going well, Joel Mokyr defends his Nobel thesis, and Ted Gioia argues the Odyssey belongs in the music department.
