American Exceptionalism
By Blogging will be light for the next few days, as I’m in Montreal giving a lecture.
Since I’m back in a country that abolished the death penalty because it’s a liberal democracy that isn’t the United States, I should note that Eric Holder has announced that the DOJ will seek the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. This is wrong because the death penalty is wrong — arbitrary and inequitable at best, prone to innocent people being killed at worst — and the DOJ is not required to seek the penalty. It’s a black mark against the administration.