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New Book: The Fear of Too Much Justice

A new book by Stephen Bright and James Kwak on the systemic failings of our criminal legal system

May 9, 2023

New Book: The Fear of Too Much Justice

May 9, 2023

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I’ve Done Everything I’ve Done by Accident

Why I decided to quit my job as a law professor

Mar 24, 2022

I’ve Done Everything I’ve Done by Accident

Mar 24, 2022

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This Is Not About Justice

Toforest Johnson is an innocent Black man on death row. The courts don’t care.

Dec 7, 2023

Dec 7, 2023

Why Go to College?

In (partial) defense of the humanities

Nov 30, 2023

Why Go to College?

Nov 30, 2023

What You Can Do for Justice

How ordinary people can help fight inequality in the criminal courts

Oct 20, 2023

What You Can Do for Justice

Oct 20, 2023

More Baseball Innumeracy

Why do baseball journalists get the cash flow exactly backwards?

Aug 2, 2023

More Baseball Innumeracy

Aug 2, 2023

Max Scherzer and the Economics of Baseball Trades

How the Mets took the Rangers to the cleaners

Jul 31, 2023

Max Scherzer and the Economics of Baseball Trades

Jul 31, 2023

All Euros (or Dollars) Are Worth the Same: A Memo to Soccer Club Owners

Club owners act as if systematically overpaying in transfer fees entitles them to receive similarly inflated fees in return.

Jul 14, 2023

All Euros (or Dollars) Are Worth the Same: A Memo to Soccer Club Owners

Jul 14, 2023

On Reading Proust

Did you know that I was originally a literature major in college?

Jun 30, 2023

On Reading Proust

Jun 30, 2023

Capitalist Health Care Has Failed

Why do we treat protection from invasion as a public good and protection from disease as a consumer good?

Jun 26, 2023

Capitalist Health Care Has Failed

Jun 26, 2023

AI and the Duplicity of Silicon Valley

What Silicon Valley doesn’t want you to know: The primary threat of AI is not extinction, but a drastic increase in inequality.

Jun 13, 2023

AI and the Duplicity of Silicon Valley

Jun 13, 2023

The Mythology of Succession

Rich people have more money. And they are doing just fine.

Jun 8, 2023

The Mythology of Succession

Jun 8, 2023

Un Giorno all’Improvviso …

… Mi innamorai di te.

May 6, 2023

Un Giorno all’Improvviso …

May 6, 2023

Capitalism and Communication

How private companies exploit people in prison and cut them off from their communities

May 4, 2023

Capitalism and Communication

May 4, 2023

48 Percent of Americans Voted Against Democracy

The Democrats’ narrow “victory” in the 2022 midterm elections only showed the growing strength of authoritarianism.

Nov 13, 2022

48 Percent of Americans Voted Against Democracy

Nov 13, 2022

Democracy Takes Another Hit

If Democrats can barely match up with an extremist authoritarian party, democracy is in trouble

Nov 9, 2022

Democracy Takes Another Hit

Nov 9, 2022

Significance, Magnitude, and Base Rates

A brief statistics lesson

Oct 28, 2022

Significance, Magnitude, and Base Rates

Oct 28, 2022

Published in
Momentum

“If You Cannot Afford a Lawyer, One Will Be Appointed for You”

Or maybe not. Why hundreds of people are sitting in jai in Georgia without a lawyer.

Oct 3, 2022

“If You Cannot Afford a Lawyer, One Will Be Appointed for You”

Oct 3, 2022

Why Adnan Syed Is Free

Why the subject of Serial was released. Hint: it wasn’t the podcast.

Sep 25, 2022

Why Adnan Syed Is Free

Sep 25, 2022

Published in
Marker

Financial Intermediary Capitalism and the Accidental Oligopoly

My testimony for the Senate Budget Committee on the economic power of large asset managers

Feb 21, 2022

Financial Intermediary Capitalism and the Accidental Oligopoly

Feb 21, 2022

James Kwak

James Kwak

Books: The Fear of Too Much Justice, Take Back Our Party, Economism, White House Burning, 13 Bankers. Former professor. Co-founder, Guidewire Software. Cellist.

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