Justice, Mercy and The Irishman The world of The Irishman is a deeply moral one, with a strong sense of retribution and justice, but without much hope of reconciliation or redemption for its central characters.
The strange endurance of torture The “logic” of torture, that “it was okay to torture the guilty,” continued in Chicago policing at least into the 1970s.
Karl Barth visits three prisons Barth counsels solidarity with those in Bridewell, San Quentin, Rikers — or the Basel Prison.