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I'm genuinely excited today to announce the release of my new book, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful. As of this morning, it is available in bookstores as well as for shipping online. The book focuses on what I began realizing several years ago is the crucial theme tying together most of the topics I write about: America's two-tiered justice system - specifically, the way political and financial elites are now vested with virtually absolute immunity from the rule of law even when they are caught committing egregious crimes, while ordinary Americans are subjected to the world's largest and one of its harshest and most merciless penal states even for trivial offenses. As a result, law has been completely perverted from what it was intended to be - the guarantor of an equal playing field which would legitimize outcome inequalities - into its precise antithesis: a weapon used by the most powerful to protect their ill-gotten gains, strengthen their unearned prerogatives, and ensure ever-expanding opportunity inequality. This is how I described that development in the book:

That 'high-rises provide vantage points, otherwise unthinkable of' is beyond debate and when such a point provides an unobstructed view as well, it's definitely a bonanza. It is this distinct advantage that Aedas, the architects of Mongkok Residence, Hong Kong plan to serve to its residents through this towering landmark. Check it out here...

Delhi's new WIP st+art project is yet another step towards empowering the society via art. How far are we succeeding in this mission? Check out this link and leave us your views…

Sci-fi marries architecture in this bizzaire environment where designer Steven Rude brings to life the spaces we see only on screens. Check out this crazy home and leave us your views…

If Disney's Beauty and the Beast gave you unrealistic expectations of libraries, you have another thought coming. This breath-taking library-cum-galley space by Tomoko Ikegai is the one for you! Check it out here…

Celebrating Japanese cuisine and culture in Hotel Roomers, Munich, is a standalone restaurant: Izakaya designed by @concrete-architectural-associates. With silk printed artwork, bespoke furniture and a massive Koi lamp, this area is a real treat! Adapting to its quiet restaurant crowd and then transforming into a cosy bar after hours makes the designers vision quite remarkable.

Art, architecture and landscape are beautifully fused in this multifunctional space designed for an artist couple by @VeechxVeech Architecture and Design Studio. Read more about this compelling and immersive space here

Interior designer, Minnie Bhatt chalks out a trip to Burma in trendy Delhi restaurant, Burma Burma. Check out this ode to the people, culture and food of this beautiful land and leave us your views

Shalin Gandhi brings this contemporary residence to life, breathing in style and colour through planar treatments, furnishings and decorative accessories. Check it out here…

Palatial settings, elaborate art-deco interiors and an ambience that recalls the grandeur of the golden era of cinema, this PVR at Gurugram by DesignEx is an ode to its legacy and nostalgic memories. Check it out here…

Who says small spaces can't make big impacts? Designer #MamoruMaeda of #SEMBA, Vietnam activates Ho Chi Minh City's bustling downtown area with this 3.7 sq. m. gem!

Excited to unveil the research collated via the #KyaBola campaign that has touched tangential aspects of the problem of indiscriminate honking. We look forward to your comments/ suggestions to mark this campaign as the beginning of a positive social change.

Designed by the eminent Studio Yamini, this breezy Vadodara penthouse uses abundant natural light and a muted, earthy material palette to create a gorgeously minimal and understated ambience set against warm, inviting hues. http://bit.ly/StudioYamini-IAnD

The dark, infinite expanse of outer space and its quiet, unexplored beauty is nothing short of remarkable. This restaurant #Interstellar in #Mexico City designed by Almazán y Arquitectos Asociados + Concepto Taller de Arquitectura + Pin Studio echoes this sentiment through its galactic theme…

Ar. Arpan Shah of Modo Designs, crafts a sensitised architectural vocabulary that responds to the nature around it; simultaneously culling out equally potent interior spaces that hold their own. Check out this home in Ahmedabad and tell us what you think…

Does wabi-sabi enshrine the secret of good living? Find out in this Ukranian apartment designed by Sergey Makhno Architects. Do you think one should opt for this philosophy to calm the mind, given the physical stresses of our demanding urban lifestyles?

An experiential space as temporal and transient as the hours in a day - Fran Silvestre Arquitectos refurbish this residence, 'The Fourth Room', to catalyse growth. Check out this non-conventional play of space here…

#A&KDesignStudio plays with patterns, colours and layers culling out a distinct design vocabulary via the homeowners' collection of art and memorabilia in this South #Mumbai home, alluding to a chic experimental style.

Atrey and Associates designs a montage of #classic and #contemporary nuances in this plush residence in #Delhi. Check out the story here…