The Blanks Slate

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A newsletter covering American culture at the intersections of politics, policy, and race.

About Jonathan Blanks

D.C.-based criminal justice writer and cultural critic who spends a lot of time at the library.

Hoosier by birth and college education.

Some would call me a libertarian. I would not.

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