John Pfaff
Professor at Fordham Law. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian, the data are. Author of Locked In. New stuff at johnfpfaff.com.
- For NYCers facing a large number of candidates to (please please PLEASE) replace Adams this year, this is a fantastic tool to see where they stand and who lines up best for you. Though I found this outcome dispiriting, if unsurprising.
- NYC! We brought back Meet Your Mayor just in time before the June primary. The mayoral candidates told us where they stand on big issues. Who is the top match for you? Take our quiz, in partnership with @Gothamist.com, to find out: buff.ly/1FJjfrXhttps...
- Can we hold one prominent person to account? Just one? Even just one who is dead and thus not lobbying for "redemption"? Just. One. Case. Of. Accountability? The accountability of not having a plaque in a museum he'll never visit. It's the MILDEST accountability. But, you know: no.
- Resettling white Afrikaners as refugees is the sort of metaphor for "we are a really racist government" that most editors would remove from a dystopian novel for being way way too ham-fisted. Props to the Episcopal Church for using its religious freedom to call out this disgusting act.
- BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...
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- Is the Catholic Theological Union affiliated with the UofC?
- I thought it was, but maybe it is just in Hyde Park but not connected. I just sort of assumed any school in HP was tethered to UofC in one way or another, but looks like that may not be so. My mistake!
