Correctional facility: A response to Jonathan Basile’s ‘Natural Election’
Correctional facility: A response to Jonathan Basile’s ‘Natural Election’
- July 15, 2026
- Mike Fortun, anthropology, reviews Original Sin for the Los Angeles Review of Books
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“In this decade, attacks on science and scientists have dramatically intensified, sometimes to the point of direct threat and violence. The moment calls for sharp and accessible science writing, especially by accomplished scientists who are thoughtful about their science’s limits and its sociopolitical import. I read Kathryn Paige Harden’s Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness (2026) as doing just this. A scientist’s memoir and meditation on behavioral genetics, the book explores the links between Christianity and science and tackles imprisonment in the context of ideologies of punishment and forgiveness.”
Continue reading at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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