Noteworthy reads from last week.
For Marc J. Dunkelman, the verdict is clear: “The township, in essence, is dying.”
Like everyone in this community, I read the Rolling Stone story about the violent gang rape at the University of Virginia’s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity with profound sadness and indignation.
Missouri’s flawed use-of-force law was in place long before the day Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown.
For the second time in as many months the University of Virginia is being asked to reckon with the fact that predatory sexual violence—so prevalent in many parts of the world—is also present in its midst.