Behind the News

Prisoners, cash bail, and postliberalism

• Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative on the demographics of the million people in state prisons (with a coda on the fight around ending cash bail in New York State)

• Historian James Chappel, author of this article, on postliberalism, notably the reactionary Catholic law prof Adrian Vermeule (a contributing editor of the would-be left–right hybrid magazine, Compact)