What does it mean to truly forgive and when is it morally right to do so? In this essay, Luke Russell examines the remarkable case of Abdirashid Abdi, a refugee who forgave his attacker and advocated for her leniency. Russell challenges our assumptions about justice, asks whether forgiveness can coexist with punishment, if compassion might sometimes carry risks and what role victims play in shaping the moral landscape of accountability.

Roddy Brett explores the haunting legacy of enforced disappearance as a tool of political violence, particularly in Latin America. He examines the psychological and societal impacts on the families of the disappeared, delving into their daily rituals of hope and despair. By analyzing the intersection of state terror, genocide, and the denial of bodies, he calls for a deeper understanding of the human dimensions of disappearance and a more critical engagement with this crime a

Benjamin George Coles argues that artistic means should often be incorporated into punishments – and indeed that we would benefit generally from thinking of punishment in more aesthetic terms. He first identifies the various objectives that we standardly have with punishment and argues for the primacy of an educational one. He then describes a series of real-life educational punishments and closes with a discussion of why the notion of punishment art is such a strange one.

"Black Americans are painfully reminded that racism has worsened since Obama’s presidency, not improved."

"In the age of the toxic commons, not one of us, not even the environmentally privileged ones like me, remains unaffected by toxicants."