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As any law student who’s studied criminal law will tell you, there are four traditional rationales for punishment: retribution (giving someone their just deserts), deterrence (preventing harm in the future), rehabilitation (transforming someone into a better person through punishment), and incapacitation (keeping a person away from society so they don’t hurt others). In discussions of criminal justice policy, these rationales are very often mixed up and conflated, which produces incoherent discussions.

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This will be my last article calling out Fr. Peter Heers, John Coffman (who, I believe, is the primary ghost writer of Orthodox Ethos’ newest abomination of a book _On the Reception of the Heterodox Into the Orthodox Church_), Orthodox Ethos, Uncut Mountain Press, for quite some time – ideally forever. I neither enjoy such work nor find it apropos to the desire of my heart: to live a quiet, peaceful existence, practicing the faith and working out my own salvation with fear and trembling.

Last spring, after the tragic death of the incisive press critic Eric Boehlert, I wrote about his (and many other people’s) emphasis on framing the news. Framing is the idea that the assumptions behind the presentation, emphasis, and selection of stories are generally far more important than usual indicators of “bias,” overt as they might be. This post is a quick reaction to a story this evening in the New York Times illustrating the framing points that Eric Boehlert and others have been writing about.

What follows is a kind of FAQ. A backstory, if you prefer. I did not intend to do a PhD in French. This seems like a weird thing to fall ass-backwards into doing, and it wasn’t exactly like that, but it was closer than you might think. I had studied French in college because I wanted to read novels but thought this way I could do so and leave with a practical skill.

My coverage of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 16 continues with episode 4. Additionally, I am currently running a 30% off discount on paid subscriptions from now through the end of the month, which will get you access to the weekly “Brianna’s Digest.” Get 30% off forever “Frank vs. Russia” has handily cemented itself as one of Sunny’s greatest late period episodes, an episode that had the virtue of expanding upon an already-existing news story that itself sounded like something straight out of an episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

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Hi everybody! This is going to be the last One Sentence for a while. Fully intoxicated by the promise of September (the thinking person’s New Year), I’m hoping to focus on fiction-writing for a bit. Please do keep the recommendations coming, though, and I’ll see you back here when I read something so good that I can’t bear not to blather about it. Thank you, truly, for reading, Ben “‘I know your friend very well.