What Does It Mean To ‘Punish’ Syria?
The President of France, M. François Hollande, has spoken repeatedly of ‘punishing’ Syria. It is not easy to know precisely what he means by this, since he has also stated that the object of such...
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Parole and the Rule of Law
My wife tells me that I have bees in my bonnet, generally in serial fashion rather than all at once, and the one at the moment is the attack on the rule of law known as parole. The question of parole...
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Banished from the City
The relation between morality and law is (or ought to be) complex and subtle: the two are neither identical nor entirely separate. Once upon a time everyone seemed to understand this, as if by...
View ArticleLiberalism and the Death Penalty
Is the abolition of the death penalty in most western countries an unmitigated good? Craig Lerner, Professor of Law at George Mason’s Scalia Law School, discusses this question and the willingness of...
View ArticleJustice Means Punishment
What do people mean when they demand justice for George Floyd? I shall return in a moment to this question. Let me first sketch my own attitude to his death, which is not very different, I imagine,...
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