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The Pizza Police

I should start by revealing the location of my own perfect pizza: Denino’s Pizza Tavern, which has made its home on Port Richmond Avenue on Staten Island since 1937. The place is run by the family of...

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Guilt Trap

If I Did It is an extremely confusing book written by an extremely confused man. That man is O. J. Simpson. He wrote the book as an act of confession. Or, maybe not, since the entire book is...

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Forman for Reform

James Forman Jr. is an academic who studies the criminal justice system, which is not unusual for a former clerk to a Supreme Court justice. But Forman also worked for years as a public defender in...

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Balloon Meets Pin

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. — Jacques Lacan The life of the law has not been logic; it has...

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The Repressive Roots of the Supreme Court

Crispus Attucks was one of the first martyrs of the American Revolution. Half Black and half Native American, Attucks had escaped slavery to work the whaling ships of Boston, where, on March 5, 1770,...

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