1) The Scandinavian Prison Project: The Scandinavian Prison Project seeks to empirically assess what happens when certain practices and principles from Scandinavian corrections are implemented in an American prison setting … we chose to use a lottery as opposed to the more common (and to some more intuitive) approach of only allowing the most
+1 recommendation to no. 16; I have spoken to Edmonds over Zoom about some of the content of the book and what he found when digging, and while obvs I can't mention anything specific until it comes out, I'm super excited for it.
There's also a BBC documentary from a little while back on Mary Whitehouse (available on iPlayer) that Perry contributed to, and which I think is easily twice as valuable as reading her book for the purposes of both understanding her arguments and grasping their weak points.
On no. 18 and Hanania's book, it is worth reading, but I'm not sure I'd give him credit for most of its content. The value in it is just that it collects together a bunch of important points that have not yet been collected together explicitly in an IR context before (some specific things from public choice theory and libertarian FP scepticism, some more general things from political theory and IR itself - although he doesn't really want to admit that latter bit). That is definitely valuable, no question, but I think he wants to catapult himself to 'independent thinker' status off the back of it. Yet I'm not sure there really is anything novel in there.
+1 recommendation to no. 16; I have spoken to Edmonds over Zoom about some of the content of the book and what he found when digging, and while obvs I can't mention anything specific until it comes out, I'm super excited for it.
Ok, I think I'm going to stop after this one (going a bit overboard), but on no. 26, this very obvious personal caricature of Perry is nonetheless very biting and quite funny: https://jaccusepaper.substack.com/p/what-if-feminism-has-gone-too-far
There's also a BBC documentary from a little while back on Mary Whitehouse (available on iPlayer) that Perry contributed to, and which I think is easily twice as valuable as reading her book for the purposes of both understanding her arguments and grasping their weak points.
On no. 18 and Hanania's book, it is worth reading, but I'm not sure I'd give him credit for most of its content. The value in it is just that it collects together a bunch of important points that have not yet been collected together explicitly in an IR context before (some specific things from public choice theory and libertarian FP scepticism, some more general things from political theory and IR itself - although he doesn't really want to admit that latter bit). That is definitely valuable, no question, but I think he wants to catapult himself to 'independent thinker' status off the back of it. Yet I'm not sure there really is anything novel in there.