Barry Lam

Barry Lam is the host and producer of the Hi-Phi Nation podcast and is an associate professor of philosophy at Vassar College.

Recently by Barry Lam

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What Prison Abolition Actually Looks Like

Barry Lam

July 01, 2020 9:00 AM

Should We Abolish All Forms of State Punishment? We Look at the Arguments.

Hi-Phi Nation

June 27, 2020 8:00 AM

How a Judge Can Sentence You for a Crime You Were Already Acquitted Of

Barry Lam

June 17, 2020 9:00 AM

How the Government Can Lose a Criminal Case and Punish a Defendant Anyway

Hi-Phi Nation

June 13, 2020 6:00 AM

How Defendants End Up Pleading Guilty to Nonexistent Crimes

Barry Lam

June 10, 2020 7:30 AM

How One Judge Pushed Back Against Lifetime Punishment

Hi-Phi Nation

June 06, 2020 6:00 AM

Not Even a Lawyer Can Get You Out of Solitary Confinement in Massachusetts

Barry Lam

June 03, 2020 11:03 AM

How I Got to Solitary Confinement at Walpole, and How I Got Out

Hi-Phi Nation

May 30, 2020 8:00 AM

What Does It Mean to Be a Feminist Prosecutor?

Barry Lam

May 27, 2020 9:00 AM

Does Feminist Prosecution Contribute to Mass Incarceration?

Hi-Phi Nation

May 23, 2020 8:00 AM

How Police Turn Teens Into Informants

Barry Lam

May 20, 2020 5:55 AM

How Stings, Undercover Operations, and Informant Deals Violate the Rule of Law

Hi-Phi Nation

May 16, 2020 8:00 AM

An Ex–Police Chief on Why Some Laws Shouldn’t Be Enforced

Barry Lam

May 13, 2020 9:00 AM

How the Invention of the Car Gave American Police Their Power

Hi-Phi Nation

May 09, 2020 8:00 AM

When Clogging a Toilet Is a Federal Crime

Barry Lam

May 07, 2020 3:42 PM

Hi-Phi Nation: Criminal Minds

Hi-Phi Nation

April 30, 2020 3:40 PM

A Philosopher Examines the Meaning of YOLO

June 22, 2019 6:00 AM

Animal Liberation Activists Are Disruptive and Uncivil—and Maybe Right

May 25, 2019 6:00 AM

What Kind of Gender Nonconformity Does the Public Really Fear?

May 11, 2019 6:00 AM

What Is Gender and, in Particular, Womanhood?

April 27, 2019 6:00 AM