Last month's issue of Asterisk (November 2024) contains an interview with Skarbek, which Scott thinks will be online shortly.

True if the Asterisk issue published around November 2024 contains an interview with David Skarbek (the prison-gangs scholar). The hedged part about it going online shortly is an expectation, not a test. Mostly true if the interview appeared in an Asterisk issue a little earlier or later than November 2024, or is a Q&A or conversation rather than a formal interview. Mostly false if Skarbek's work appeared in Asterisk only as an article by or about him, not as an interview, or appeared in a much different issue. False if Asterisk has no such Skarbek piece.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Why We Have Prison Gangs Asterisk Magazine · 1 November 2024

   “For my second book, I read hundreds of studies of prison social order.”

2. E2 Pluralistic: Pinkslump linkdump (18 Jan 2025) Pluralistic (Cory Doctorow) · 18 January 2025

   “David Skarbek is a political scientist who studies prison gangs. In a fascinating interview with Asterisk, he describes the forces that led to the rise of race-segregated prison gangs, from virtually nonexistent for 100 years to ubiquitous:”

E1 is an Asterisk Magazine piece in issue 08, "Why We Have Prison Gangs," dated 2024-11-01. Its first-person quote ("For my second book, I read hundreds of studies of prison social order") is consistent with a scholar being interviewed, though on its own it does not show an interview. E2, an independent source, describes "a fascinating interview with Asterisk" in which David Skarbek, the political scientist who studies prison gangs, explains how race-segregated prison gangs arose. Together these show that Asterisk's November 2024 issue contained an interview with Skarbek, which meets the criteria for true.