Henry Watkins Skinner


Hank Skinner’s case is messy. All death row cases are messy by the time they get national attention. But the hard truth is that Texas – it is so often Texas – is once again trying to execute a defendant without examining all of the evidence. There’s no question there was a horrific crime, a…

The New Gilded Age


Back in undergraduate school, shortly after the end of the Dark Ages, WC was made to read William E. Leuchtenburg’s The Perils of Prosperity, an economic and political history of 1914-1932. As a simple, accessible summary of the period from the U.S. entry into World War I to the start of the Great Depression, WC…