Hate Speech: An Imaginary Debate
Stephen Rohde offers an imaginary debate between Nadine Strossen and Richard Delgado....
Reasonableness Without Reasons: Yascha Mounk’s “The People vs. Democracy”
Is populism a reaction against oligarchy, or is it part of the oligarchic plan?...
Totalitarian Politics Are Local
A flawed but spirited attempt to develop a grand theory of the 21st-century autocratic revival....
An Imagined Insurgency: A Conversation with Bernard E. Harcourt
A law professor argues that counterinsurgency is no longer a temporary emergency measure but a permanent state of being....
Higher Loyalty? James Comey and the Failure of Leadership
Unintentionally, "A Higher Loyalty" teaches us more about “ethical leadership” by showing not what Comey has done in his career but what he has failed to do....
The Court’s Supreme Injustice
Allen Mendenhall passes judgment on “Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court” by Paul Finkelman....
Human Rights Lawyers — A Stalwart Breed
Mark Ellis reviews Michael Sfard's "The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human."...
After a Grim Year for LGBT Rights, the Way Forward
Graeme Reid, director of the LGBT Rights Program at the Human Rights Watch, on a grim year in LGBT civil rights and what it means for the path forward....
“Weapons Not of the Weak, but of the Strong”: On Nikolay Koposov’s “Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia”
Douglas Smith on “Memory Laws, Memory Wars,” by Nikolay Koposov, which “makes clear the dangers in trying to legislate our understanding of the past.”...
The Long March of the Corporate Rights Movement
Ryan Azad reviews Adam Winkler's "We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights."...
“Learn the Use of Explosives!”: On Jacqueline Jones’s “Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical”
Elaine Elinson praises “Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical” by Jacqueline Jones....
A Rich Contribution to Supreme Court Literature
Jean Rosenbluth reviews Bryan A. Garner's "Nino and Me: My Unusual Friendship with Justice Antonin Scalia."...
