Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and War Fighting:
“I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.“?!
Where do they find these people?
Update It turns out that Boykin’s incapacity to distinguish his official duties from his religious beliefs was a well-known problem at the time of his appointment. When he commanded Fort Bragg, he sponsored a huge revival meeting on base, using base facilities, according to the New York Times.
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Books:
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
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Curriculum Vitae
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