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Finding Freedom in the Gender Phantasmagoria
The parts where Butler does what they do best—academic analysis of gender and culture—are excellent, but they sit uneasily alongside an awkward and insistent self-defense.
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Against the Slave Power: the Fugitive Liberalism of Frederick Douglass
Douglass elaborated a political theory from his experiences as a slave, where institutions were directed against people like him. He had to become attuned to the differential character of law as it applied to slaves and other outlaws.
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Mass Deportation: If You Do It
What you'll do.
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He Will Try
Only one candidate is guaranteed to try to undermine our democracy and our way of life.
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C. B. Macpherson on Retrieving Liberal Radicalism
The 20th century political theorist has much to offer for the contemporary left liberal.
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A Resilient Spirit Yearning for Justice: The Arab World Today
Powerlessness in the Arab World, thirteen years after the Arab Spring.
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An American Reconstruction
The revolution will take place within the modes and orders of American law even as it distorts and transforms that law.
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For Non-Binary Arkansans, No ID, No Entry Into Public Life
The governor of Arkansas has intentionally demeaned minority communities in a state where their position is already precarious.
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Elections Are Purely Practical
Don’t be vain about your vote.
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The Case Against Despair
In politics sometimes you’re in government, sometimes you’re in the opposition, and sometimes you’re a dissident.
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Yes to a Living City: Applying Jacobs' Principles to New York's Rezoning
The urbanism of Jane Jacobs, then and now.
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The Courts and the Personalist Presidency
The erosion of democratic institutions on behalf of lobbyists, courts, and arbitrary personalism.