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Administration of the death penalty perhaps cannot be made fair enough. As a deterrent, it is probably not necessary. But public passions are inflamed by the inevitable monsters. Civil reason is suspended in the face of what looks like evil incarnate. "It's an emotional issue. It's...
To work at all, deterrence requires murderers to reckon at least roughly the probable costs of their actions. But if a killer is drunk or high on drugs, that kind of rational assessment might be impossible. Passions are often at play that make a cost-benefit analysis unlikely. Most killers...
One new school that has been winning converts is that of rational expectations. This approach holds that the Government should not try to spur the economy through deficit spending and loose-money policies, since such efforts just jack up inflation. The proper economic role of Government, this theory argues, is...
Later that commitment took a chilling turn toward fanaticism. In May 1982 he tried to buy 1,000 Ibs. of dynamite in Hazard, Ky., a small coal-mining town 150 miles southeast of Louisville. Since this past July, he had been living in a spartan $26-a-night room at...
TRULY, TIMERMAN misunderstands the Arab-Israeli struggle, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in particular; he only states clearly once the problem that gnaws at him, and then only near the end of the book. He writes: "Who gave us the right to decide that those civilians must die because they...