Category Archives: Crime & Punishment

Trump’s pardons spit in the faces of one particular group of Americans

Posted on December 7, 2025 by Naomi

The ones no one refers to when convictions are announced: the people, i.e., us ordinary and unheralded participants in the American experiment, who sat on the many grand juries indicting the criminals and the many juries convicting them. When Jack … Continue reading →

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Want a pluperfect example of opportunism?

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: [T]he German company whose mechanical ladder was used in the Louvre heist utilized a photograph from the museum theft in an ad touting the machine’s ability to function as “quiet as a whisper” for “when you … Continue reading →

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For my fellow urbanites: same genius, different subject

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Naomi

Holmes had been buried in the morning papers all the way down, but after we passed the Hampshire border he threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked … Continue reading →

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