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Gladwell on zero-tolerance

“[M]aking a fetish of personal accountability conveniently removes the need for institutional accountability,” says Malcolm Gladwell in a column about zero-tolerance policies in the latest _New Yorker_. “To acknowledge that the causes of our actions are complex and muddy seems permissive, and permissiveness is the hallmark of an ideology now firmly in disgrace.” (via Kottke)

Posted byDanny SilvermanSeptember 1, 2006Posted inAside

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