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Book Review: “Free Them All” — The Case for Abolishing Prisons

August 1, 2023
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“Free Them All”‘s analysis of the broken prison system and the obstacles facing those determined to find solutions combines scholarly discipline with a powerful, emotional appeal for justice.

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Book Review: “We Uyghurs Have No Say” — When Truth Telling Becomes Subversive

March 12, 2022
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What do the words of an imprisoned Uyghur dissident tell us about the desperate plight of China’s ethnic minorities today?

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Book Review: “The U.S. Antifascism Reader” — Recovering the Great American Tradition of Punching Nazis

July 18, 2020
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Practical handbook, compendium of theory, or history of an American tradition? A little of each… but enough of any?

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