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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

3 min readMay 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

7 min readMar 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.

5 min readDec 7, 2023

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Why Go to College?

In (partial) defense of the humanities

8 min readNov 30, 2023

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What You Can Do for Justice

How ordinary people can help fight inequality in the criminal courts

3 min readOct 20, 2023

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More Baseball Innumeracy

Why do baseball journalists get the cash flow exactly backwards?

2 min readAug 2, 2023

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Max Scherzer and the Economics of Baseball Trades

How the Mets took the Rangers to the cleaners

4 min readJul 31, 2023

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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.

4 min readJul 14, 2023

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

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James Kwak

On Reading Proust

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

4 min readJun 30, 2023

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Capitalist Health Care Has Failed

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

3 min readJun 26, 2023

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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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