Looking at the Supreme Court’s Growing Partisan Divide Through Elite-Colored Glasses
Alyson Claire Decker reviews Lawrence Baum and Neal Devins's "The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court."...
The Sea Is Not Anonymous: On Jeffrey S. Kahn’s “Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire”
One of the strangest and most contentious borders in US history is the watery one with Haiti....
The Mueller Report: “Oh My God. This Is Terrible. This Is the End of My Presidency. I’m Fucked.”
Stephen Rohde reads the Mueller Report and looks at past impeachment proceedings to determine where we go from here....
Letter from New York: The Dope on How We Cope, or, The Theater Cure
Laurie Winer reviews several plays currently on Broadway, including "Hadestown," "To Kill a Mockingbird," and "My Fair Lady."...
The Kaiser’s Trial: How a Case that Never Happened Helped Create the International Criminal Justice System
Mark Ellis reviews William A. Schabas's meticulously researched and gripping "The Trial of the Kaiser."...
“We the People”: A Guide for the Perplexed Liberal
Erwin Chemerinsky's "We the People" is a rallying cry for progressives to get out of their funk....
First and Not Last
"First: Sandra Day O’Connor" is the happy product of a rare publishing phenomenon: the marriage of a significant subject with a mature, empathetic writer....
The Hundred Years’ War Over Free Speech
"The Free Speech Century" is a rich buffet of intellectual delicacies, which need not be gorged in one sitting but can be enjoyably sampled at leisure....
The Last of the Unicorns: Facebook and the Fight for a Better Future
Siva Vaidhyanathan's "Antisocial Media" paints a bleak picture of Facebook's impact, but are its policy prescriptions enough?...
A Justice for All Seasons
Stephen Rohde delivers a speech on the judicial legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg....
Notes of an Undocumented Son
Sara Campos reviews Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas new memoir, "Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen."...
Barbaric and Excessive: Two Books on Punishment in the United States
Sabrina Alli reviews "The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences" and "Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness."...
