A Conversation with HLS Lecturer evelyn douek In the chaos and confusion of the Coronavirus pandemic, few have stopped to notice or second-guess the unprecedented role that online platforms have assumed in the past few months. Among the few who have, fewer still have looked beyond the pandemic and questioned what is truly at stake. […]
Prioritizing Life: the Grim Irony of Capital Punishment in the Time of Coronavirus
As it has transformed almost every aspect of social and economic life in America, the Coronavirus pandemic has forced local governments and public health officials to think about incarcerated populations in new ways. Concentrated in crowded, often unsanitary conditions where social distancing is impossible, prison populations face heightened risks of contracting COVID-19, and prisons themselves […]