A criminal justice professor thinks “penitentiaries” don’t work–and has an alternative solution to jail time.

You’ve caught a criminal responsible for a serious crime. What do you do with him? If the crime is bad enough, comedian Eddie Izzard jokingly suggests, you should send him to Texas to get hit over the head with a brick. But short of that, what’s the best course of action? In most Western countries, [...]

I didn’t plan on writing anything today, but sometimes one just finds something worth sharing – especially when one reads Daniel Hannan’s blog. In all the commotion following the death of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), the gravity of which incidentally was a welcome relief after the Michael Jackson hype shortly before, most of [...]

Last week Daniel Hannan, the member of the European Parliament best-known for his scathing dressing-down of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, delivered a lecture at The Heritage Foundation. It’s a good 40 minutes or so, but well worth watching–Hannan articulates American political principles better than most Americans, and warns against chasing a technocratic solution to healthcare [...]