When someone justifies violence in a time of war, it is important to stop and ask what the point of such justification really is ("Violence can breed justice as well as injustice: When history and common sense make the case," Beliefs column, Oct. 27).
When people feel excluded from any reasonable expectation of justice, as happened in San Francisco in 1979 when Harvey Milk's assassin Dan White escaped a murder conviction, riots like White Night can occur.
Some of these may be close to poetic justice - as when he receives a split lip in a beating, reminiscent of Hassan's harelip - but most of them are nothing but schlock.
When surveyed, pupils who had been informed about the manipulative nature of the food industry were also more likely to agree with statements relating to autonomy, social status and social justice such as: "When I eat healthy, I am helping to make the world a better place".
"Just as, when perfected, a human is the best of animals, so also when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all" (1253a31 3).
The money given to Africa to help its so-called "development" is referred to as "aid", when in fact it should be seen as a form of reparations for a history of colonisation and ongoing domination that has left the African people almost as far from economic and social justice as they were when the European empires packed up and left in the years following the end of the Second World War.
But as Alito and Thomas grow in prominence as conservative allies, one thing's for sure: This court is not the same as when Justice Antonin Scalia was still on it.
Mr Gove called for the cash in June in his first speech as Justice Secretary when he criticised the "creaking and outdated" criminal justice system.
Mr Grayling also referred to his time as Justice Secretary, when the contractors G4S and Serco were found to have claimed to have electronically tagged non-existent prisoners as part of an outsourcing contract.
"Roland Dumas appears unable to accept the fact that this government chose not to intervene in judicial affairs," she said, referring to her role as justice minister when the case against Mr. Dumas was being investigated.
