Privilege

Posted on February 1, 2018
Image: The abolition of privileges, at the Monument to the Republic, Paris. Via Wikimedia Commons.

According to current usage, privilege means something like good fortune.

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Once and Always a Criminal?

Posted on September 20, 2017
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Michelle Jones's statement that she killed her son partly because of her own trauma and psychological breakdown speaks to an unresolved tension in our thinking about crime.
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