‘Some Birds Aren’t Meant to be Caged’

Escaping household chaos, a car-bound Jonah talks prisons with Brown University’s David Skarbek. Bolivian jails ...

By Jonah Goldberg

Jun 17, 2020

Escaping household chaos, a car-bound Jonah talks prisons with Brown University’s David Skarbek. Bolivian jails and Soviet gulags are just two choices in this long game of Where’d-You-Rather: Incarceration Edition. Skarbek takes us through the highlights of his upcoming book and touches on the delicate subject of policing.

Show Notes:

–Skarbeck’s upcoming book: The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World

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