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Articles by Jared Fishman
Commentary: Charleston County cut jail time, saved tax dollars without compromising safety
America’s systems of justice are bloated, backlogged and in desperate need of reimagination. In a given year, tens of thousands of people are trapped in the criminal legal system, wasting public resources, destabilizing lives and jeopardizing community safety. Historically, most efforts to fix the system focus on large prison populations and serious felonies. And yet the majority of the cases clogging the system are low-level, nonviolent offenses, prosecuted at the local level.
Sullivan & Cromwell Discusses FTC Rules on Non-Bank Financial Institutions and Data Breaches
On October 27, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) voted to approve supplemental amendments to the Safeguards Rule (the “Final Rule”) that will require non-bank financial institutions to notify the FTC electronically as soon as possible, and no later than 30 days after discovery, of any unauthorized acquisition of unencrypted customer information that affects at least 500 consumers.[1]The breach notification must include certain information about the event, including a description of...
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann. Doubleday, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-53426-0 Bestseller Grann (Killers of the Flower Moon) delivers a concise and riveting account of the HMS Wager, a British man-of-war that ran aground on a barren island off the Chilean coast of Patagonia in 1741. Part of a squadron sent to capture a treasure-laden Spanish galleon during the War of Jenkins’ Ear, the Wager became separated from the other ships while rounding Cape Horn and wrecked several weeks later.
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Andy Clark. Pantheon, $29 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4845-6 “Human brains are prediction machines,” contends Clark (Surfing Uncertainty), a cognitive philosophy professor at the University of Sussex, in this eye-opening study. Pushing back against the idea that the brain passively processes information from the senses, Clark argues that the organ is instead constantly predicting external reality based on previous experiences and adjusting mental impressions as new information arises.
Orwell: The New Life
Novelist and book critic Taylor (On 1984) delivers a sterling account of the life and works of George Orwell (1903–1950). Born Eric Blair in Motihari, India, Orwell moved with his family to Oxfordshire, England, while he was an infant. Following his schooling, he worked as a policeman in Burma before returning to England, where he began his career as a writer and adapted his pseudonym from Suffolk’s River Orwell.
The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature’s Hidden Laws
Tim Blackburn. Island, $30 (272p) ISBN 978-1-64283-273-0 Blackburn, a biology professor at University College London, debuts with a meditative take on what moths reveal about the “workings of nature.” Homing in on nine moth species that he’s caught on the terrace of his London home, Blackburn explains how each speaks to the mechanisms through which ecosystems operate.
The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa
The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa This splendid survey by evolutionary biologist Losos (Improbable Destinies) dives into the history and behavior of cats. He covers scientific studies on felines of all sizes and chronicles the history of cat domestication, telling how Egyptians believed some cats to be the manifestation of the god Bastet and how cats were brought from Egypt to the rest of the Mediterranean by sailors who used them to hunt pests on their ships.
Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture
Andreas Wagner. Oneworld, $28.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-86154-527-8 Evolutionary “innovations” can lie dormant for millions of years before they become useful, according to this excellent study. Wagner (Life Finds a Way), a biology professor at the University of Zurich, explains that as environments change, gene or protein mutations that previously had no functional value can become transformational. Bacteria, for example, can resist antibiotics neither they nor their ancestors have ever encountered.
Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures by Nat'l Mus Afr Am Hist Culture
Edited by Kevin M. Strait and Kinshasha Holman Conwill. Smithonian, $29.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-58834-740-4 The companion volume to an exhibition at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, this stunning collection conveys the range, creativity, and dynamism of Afrofuturism and demonstrates its profound impact on popular culture.
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
Rory Carroll. Putnam, $29 (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-41949-6 Carroll (Comandante: Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela), the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent, recreates a real-life Day of the Jackal in this sterling account of a 1984 plot to assassinate British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats
Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats What do American taxpayers actually get for the $1.25 trillion they spend per year on national security? RAND Corporation senior v-p Hoehn and Shanker (coauthor, Counterstrike), director of the Project for Media and National Security, examine in this astute survey how government and military leaders have responded to threats ranging from Russia and China to Covid-19 and climate change.
The New Masculinity: A Roadmap for a 21st-Century Definition of Manhood
Alex Manley. ECW, $19.95 trade paper (254p) ISBN 978-1-77041-689-5 AskMen senior editor Manley (translator, Made Up) offers a thoughtful guide to becoming a more ethical, caring, and considerate man.
The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science
The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science Science and spirituality converge in this probing examination of humanity’s connection to the divine. Physicist Lightman (Probable Impossibilities) contends that “some human experiences are simply not reducible to zeros and ones” and draws on philosophy and science to suggest that materialism and spirituality are compatible.
Laid and Confused: Why We Tolerate Bad Sex and How to Stop
Maria Yagoda. St. Martin’s, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-1-250-27773-2 In this down-to-earth debut, Food & Wine editor Yagoda explores causes of (and fixes for) bad sex. Though much has been made of the so-called “sex recession” among millennials and Gen Zers, Yagoda doesn’t see the “opt-out” itself as a negative, and focuses instead on the issue of consensual but unpleasurable sex.
Of Ice and Men: How We’ve Used Cold to Transform Humanity: A History
Fred Hogge. Pegasus, $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-63936-183-0 Ghostwriter Hogge makes his solo debut with an illuminating and wide-ranging look at one of humanity’s most overlooked natural resources: ice. Arguing that ice and refrigeration helped shape modern society, Hogge begins with an account of the 1845 Franklin Expedition in search of the Northwest Passage, highlighting how the European explorers’ unwillingness to learn from Inuit practices likely doomed them.
Sullivan & Cromwell Discusses CFPB’s Focus on Tech Companies and Personal Finance Data
Last week, the CFPB took three actions demonstrating the agency’s continued focus on technology companies and personal financial data protection. First, the CFPB issued an interpretive rule explaining the CFPB’s view that many digital marketing providers may be “service providers” subject to the CFPB’s supervisory authority under the Consumer Financial Protection Act (“CFPA”), including its authority to address unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices (“UDAAP”).
Commentary: Let's seek forward-looking justice for Jamal Sutherland
People in Charleston are demanding justice for the death of Jamal Sutherland. They are right. Tragically, in-custody deaths are far too common, and rarely does our system provide real accountability. Charleston has an opportunity to do something different. We know firsthand the difficulties in getting justice after a killing by law enforcement. It is rare to see systemwide changes to prevent similar deaths from happening again.
Opinion: What I learned convicting a police officer of murder
Jared Fishman is a former federal civil rights prosecutor and the founder and executive director of Justice Innovation Lab. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.
The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap
Yasemin Besen-Cassino. Temple Univ., $27.95 (218p) ISBN 978-1-4399-1349-9 The American gender wage gap remains a yawning chasm, but people are looking for the cause in the wrong place, argues sociology professor Besen-Cassino in this fascinating study. Discussions of the lower wages earned by females focus on adult women, but, according to Besen-Cassino’s data, gendered inequality begins at the point when most Americans enter the labor force—in high school.
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