The Perils and Promise of Public Nuisance

In dealing with these cases, we are in the awkward but frequent situation of having created a policy (here formality) to prevent injustice but knowing that strictly applying the policy will cause injustice.

The New Right response to the latter is to ask why Americans should tolerate even one more drug, crime, or rape at all.

Might this tell us something about the seductions of marginality, the ambiguous line between the legal and the illegal, even the meaning of existence?

here are some of the things I worry about in using medications to press on the pleasure side of the balance.