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In 1988, in Indianapolis, state authorities established a residential treatment center for convicted child molesters in an all-white neighborhood. From the center's opening until mid-1991—a period during which all of the residents of the center were white—neighbors voiced no objections. In June 1991, however, authorities converted the center into a

Children who were supposed to commune with Austin's natural beauty may be unwillingly pulled into a sexual jungle of bent desire.

The second part of Tarbell’s argument—that rebates were somehow “illegal”—is simply false. There was no law against rebates, on either the federal or state level, and they were standard practice among all carriers.* Nor were they especially “secret.” Railroads struggled to prevent disclosure of particular rebates, for obvious reasons, but freely co

But most serious of all, Judge Davies wrote, was that “Thompson and Sharon are a family of affinity, which ought to be accorded respect.”

It is descriptive, and the only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it—and then dismantle it. The attempt to turn this usefully descriptive term into an almost unusable slur is, of course, designed to do the opposite: to freeze us into inaction.

ask under what conditions can courts produce political and social change?

What makes matters difficult is when any slight connection between race and crime is forbidden to be discussed at all. Yet even Taylor wouldn’t say that crime is caused by being black per se so much as it is caused by high testosterone and low IQ, which are supposedly correlated with being black. But then it would be the testosterone and IQ that ar

“Racist”