Choosing Pragmatism Over Textualism
A method of judicial interpretation that looks only to the original meaning of legal texts risks producing a Constitution and laws that no one would want.
May 23, 2024 issue
How Bondage Built the Church
Rachel Swarns’s recent book about a mass sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is simultaneously the legacy of resistance.
May 23, 2024 issue
A View from Cairo
The Egyptian government’s repression of its citizens and the Israeli government’s occupation of Palestine are inextricably linked.
May 12, 2024
Safe Havens
The UK’s “second empire” of tax-free jurisdictions around the world persists despite the overwhelming evidence that it enables corruption, drains public budgets, and exacerbates inequality.
May 23, 2024 issue
UCLA: Whose Violence?
For two days, UCLA’s pro-Palestine encampment was a site of violent aggression—committed not by the students but against them.
May 11, 2024
Nathan Thrall
A Day in the Life of Abed SalamaRead the article that grew into the book of the same name, this year’s winner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
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James Harvey: Screen Gems“Hepburn’s book is entertaining because she is a fluent writer (how many movie stars could you say that about), and she has a talent for dialogue, especially when she is re-creating her initial encounters with Huston and the ways he had of making her feel like a fool.”
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