“‘Rightsism’ gives judges much more power than they deserve in a democracy,” Jamal Greene writes. “When U.S. judges face a conflict of rights, they cancel one right or the other.”
Blake Maddux
Book Review: “American Radicals” — Unrecognized Champions of 19th-Century Protest
American Radicals is as revealing, riveting, and well-researched as any work of history that I have read in recent years.
Book Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on “How the South Won the Civil War”
“Politics is driven by language, and America’s peculiar history has given oligarchs the language to undercut democracy.”
Coming Attractions: February 23 Through March 10– What Will Light Your Fire
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Coming Attractions: February 9 Through 25 — What Will Light Your Fire
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Author Interview: Jared Ross Hardesty on “Slavery in New England” — More Pervasive Than You Thought
“The idea that slavery was not economically important to New England as a whole is just emphatically not true.”
Coming Attractions: January 26 through February 11– What Will Light Your Fire
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Coming Attractions: January 12 through 28 — What Will Light Your Fire
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Coming Attractions: December 15 through 31 — What Will Light Your Fire
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Coming Attractions: December 1 through 15 — What Will Light Your Fire
Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.