White Collar Crime prosecutions at all time low.
It seems to me that there is a massive decline today in compassion and in moral courage. And I think that, in some ways, both are connected. On social media, there’s an expectation that you will not get compassion: You tweet something, and then people are coming at you, even your friends. I think it makes people hold back. And then, of course, the moral-courage part of it is that there are people who could speak up, and they don’t. I think what’s happening now—the books that are not being published; you open the newspapers and often there’s someone who’s been dropped from something—it’s often not because those in positions of authority really believe that what has been said was bad.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in The Atlantic
I understand the turn to tweets as a certain type of proof. But this strikes me as yet another example of missing the forest for the trees.
Polarization in Congress goes back decades
I didn’t know Pava LaPere, but as a 2019 Hopkins alum, odds are I taught some of her friends. I know after graduation we travelled in the same circles. Sherrod Davis’ tribute to LaPere, who was tragically murdered last week, was poignant. We also lost “Chef Bill” last week. I wish some of the words spoken on his (and his partner Kevin Brown’s) behalf were printed.
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