Month: June 2021

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NBN Book of the Day - Gregg D. Caruso, “Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice” (Cambridge UP, 2021)

According to an intuitive view, those who commit crimes are justifiably subject to punishment. Depending on the severity of the wrongdoing constitutive of the crime, punishment can be severe: incarceration, confinement, depravation, and so on. The common thought is that in committing serious crimes, persons render themselves deserving of punishment by the State. Punishment, then, is simply a matter of giving offenders their just deserts. Call this broad view retributivism. What if retributivism’s underlying idea of desert is fundamentally confused? What if persons lack the kind of free will that would make them deserving of punishment in the sense that retributivism requires?

This is the central question of Gregg Caruso’s new book, Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (Cambridge, 2021). After arguing against the idea that persons can be deserving of punishment in the retributivist’s sense, Caruso develops an alternative approach to criminal behavior that he called the Public-Health Quarantine Model.

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New Books in Native American Studies - Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021: Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley and Jan-Henry Gray

This is the second episode of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian American Studies. This episode features two of the winners in Creative Writing: Poetry: Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, whose poetry collection Colonize Me explores the lives of those communities and peoples on the intersections of indigeneity, migration, Asian, queerness, and lower class; and Jan-Henry Gray, whose collection Documents traces Gray’s upbringing as a queer undocumented Filipino American.

Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York and is an assistant professor of poetry and nonfiction in Old Dominion University’s MFA program. His poetry collection Colonize Me won the AAAS award in Creative Writing: Poetry.

Jan-Henry Gray currently teaches at Adelphi University in New York. Born in the Philippines and raised in California where he worked as a chef, Jan lived undocumented in the U.S. for more than 32 years. His poetry collection Documents won honorable mention in Creative Writing: Poetry.

Christopher B. Patterson is an Assistant Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia.

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What A Day - Revisiting Our Favorite Conversations on Coronavirus

The past year and more were filled with extreme ups and extreme downs, and as we reflect on that time, we’re looking back on some conversations that moved us, informed us, and made us smile.

Today’s show includes interviews with 6th grade special education teacher Monice Seward, NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Sana Khan, a student of public health at the University of Arizona.


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The NewsWorthy - Race Massacre: 100 Years Later, Rideshare Rates Up & French Open Exit- Tuesday, June 1st, 2021

The news to know for Tuesday, June 1st, 2021!

We'll tell you about what was known as Black Wall Street and how the U.S. is mourning and remembering 100 years after it was destroyed.

Also, two bills were blocked: one in Congress about the January 6th Capitol riot, the other in Texas about voting laws.

Plus, changes could be coming at the post office, Uber and Lyft admit rides are more expensive right now, and why a big tennis star just quit a major tournament. 

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

This episode is brought to you by HelloFresh.com/NEWSWORTHY12 and Noom.com/newsworthy 

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Sources:

100 Years Since Tulsa Race Massacre: History, Axios, AP, WaPo

Biden Proclamation: Politico, Tulsa World, CNN, White House

Republicans Block Riot Commission: WaPo, WSJ, NY Times, The Hill

Texas Voting Bill Blocked: Texas Tribune, WSJ, NY Times, Fox News

FL Mass Shooting: Miami Herald, NY Times, Fox News, AP, WaPo 

China 3-Child Policy: WSJ, CNN, BBC, Reuters

Post Office Prices Could Increase: Forbes, Axios, WaPo, AP, USPS, Delivering for America Plan

Rideshare Prices Up, Wait Times Longer: NY Times, Fox Business, Houston Chronicle, Bloomberg

Google Photos Unlimited Storage Ends: CNET, Engadget, Google, 9to5Google

Naomi Osaka Withdraws from French Open: NBC News, AP, Naomi Osaka, FFT President

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The Daily Signal - How This Independent Journalist Documents Media Bias

The left-leaning media sometimes uses the news to promote an agenda, independent journalist Drew Holden says.

Holden has become known for his Twitter threads, in which he shows how news coverage changes depending on whether the subject is a liberal or a conservative. 

"What we've seen in the last couple of years," Holden says, "is a more activist stance in newsrooms to say, 'We actually have a moral duty and a fiduciary obligation to the people who read our stories, to not bring them this kind of both-sides conversation, and to instead home in on the truth,' particularly if it is opposed to someone like Donald Trump."

Holden joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to shine a light on just how bad media malfeasance is, what the resulting misinformation means for society, and how conservatives can reclaim a place in the media ecosystem.

Also on today’s show, we read your letters to the editor and share a good news story about Korean War veteran Ralph Puckett, who recently received the Medal of Honor at age 94. 

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Unpacking observability and OpenTelemetry with Spiros Xanthos of Splunk

You can read more about Spiros on his LinkedIn or Twitter.

There is some good backstory on his first company, Log Insight, here. A rundown of the acquisition that led to Spiros joining Splunk is here. There are also some interesting details in Splunk's blog on the deal, which calls out Omnition as a "a stealth-mode SaaS company that is innovating in distributed tracing, improving monitoring across microservices applications."

If you enjoy the conversation and want to hear more, Spiros has done some interesting talks that are up on Youtube here.

Our lifeboat of the week goes to Willie Mentzel, who explains how to: Round Double to 1 decimal place in kotlin: from 0.044999 to 0.1.

 

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Read Me a Poem - “Sunflower Sutra” by Allen Ginsberg

Amanda Holmes reads Allen Ginsberg’s poem, “Sunflower Sutra.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.


This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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Opening Arguments - OA495: Mr. Fish Goes to Washington

Today we have special guest Nick Fish, president of American Atheists! He recently attended a meeting with the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Is this administration doing a better job representing the millions of non-believers in the country? Find out! In the first segment, we discuss Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., the free speech case you may have heard about on The Daily. Andrew gives us a more complete breakdown and offers a prediction as to how the ruling will go! Links: Tinker v. Des Moines, Hazelwood Indep. School Dist. v. Kuhlmeier, Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser, BL v. Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist., 964 F.3d 170, Mahanoy Area School District v. BL oral arguments, Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships EO