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Should reformers care about "evidence"?
Better research probably won’t end mass incarceration.
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Jonathan Ben-Menachem
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July 2023

The feds are going to take over Rikers jails
What is a receivership, anyway? What does it mean for us?
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Jonathan Ben-Menachem
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A New Deal for Nightlife?
Some reflections on working in the music industry and trying to respond to sexual violence.
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Jonathan Ben-Menachem

June 2023

The "profit motive" theory of criminalization
I don't buy it. (Get it?)
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Jonathan Ben-Menachem

May 2023

Stuff I'm reading: April '23
More nerd blogging about academic books.
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Jonathan Ben-Menachem

April 2023

On "business unionism" and labor militancy
What does it mean to be militant?
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Jonathan Ben-Menachem

March 2023

Stuff I'm reading: March '23
I am yet again blogging about social science books.
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Jonathan Ben-Menachem

February 2023

The NYT, transphobia, and journalists as "watchdogs"
Are newspapers enemies or servants of the powerful?
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Jonathan Ben-Menachem
Thoughts on recent reads
The abridged version of nerd brain
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Jonathan Ben-Menachem

January 2023

Prison abolition is pragmatic
Responding to a law professor's recent critique of abolition
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Jonathan Ben-Menachem

December 2022

Why do traffic stops reduce voter turnout?
Our new study has (some of) the answers!
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Jonathan Ben-Menachem

November 2022

Effective altruism is a political nightmare
I find it genuinely tragic that posting an explainer feels justified.
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Jonathan Ben-Menachem
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