Aug 9, 2018
What happens to the authority of the modern state when it definitively leaves behind the death penalty?
Published in May, just as fatigue from COVID-19 had about reached its peak, Zena Hitz’s Lost in Thought was a welcome invitation for readers to reconsider the pleasures of the intellectual life.
We asked three authors to offer their thoughts on Hitz’s work:
The Monkish Virtues in Times of Crisis
by Jennifer A. Frey
by Paul Seaton
by Jessica Hooten Wilson
What happens to the authority of the modern state when it definitively leaves behind the death penalty?