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Colin Dayan

Colin Dayan is Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University. Her books include The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons, The Story of Cruel and Unusual, and Haiti, History, and the Gods. She has just published With Dogs at the Edge of Life, a fierce personal enquiry into canine profiling, preemptive justice, and extermination.

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Politics

Inside Joe Arpaio's Tent City

Long before Joe Arpaio became a household name, he was busy reinventing chain gangs, criminalizing detainees, and persecuting anyone who crossed his path. A series of exclusive photos from 1995 takes us back.

Colin Dayan

Global Justice, Law & Justice

On Ice

Undocumented immigrants face horrible conditions in U.S. detention, with little legal recourse.

Colin Dayan

Literature & Culture, Politics

White Leghorns

On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.

Colin Dayan

Philosophy & Religion

Feeling into Action

Lori Gruen's Entangled Empathy.

Colin Dayan

Literature & Culture, Politics

Of Popes and Dogs

The Church has always had a vexed, somewhat aggrieved relation to dogs and their status as things to be blessed or sanctified.

Colin Dayan

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

Dogs Are Not People

On Gregory Berns's How Dogs Love Us.

Colin Dayan

Only Four Steps

Photo: Courtesy of Herman's House   Alongside the death penalty, we have invented a new form

Colin Dayan

Of Citizens and Poodles

Dignity—personal dignity, the dignity of the individual—is the greatest victim of the Supreme

Colin Dayan

Class & Inequality, Philosophy & Religion

The Secret History of the Haitian Earthquake

Jonathan Katz has written the book about the Haitian earthquake. How does he contextualize the tragedy in the country's history?

Colin Dayan

A Devilish Way of Thinking

Above: Restraint chair used for forced enteral feeding at Guantánamo Bay / Wikimedia   For

Colin Dayan

Global Justice, Politics

How Not to Talk about Gaza

Talking about Gaza is like talking about God. We face the ineffable. We cannot talk about what we see. 

Colin Dayan

Global Justice, Politics

Remembering Trouillot

Michel-Rolph Trouillot died on July 5.

Colin Dayan

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