Donald Trump Put America In a Cage Match With Itself. We Lost.
This was never for the American people; it was for the most vicious and barbarous among us.
In Praise of Wokeness
Don't blame woke ideas, which have merit, for the self-defeating style of politics that is pervasive online.
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.
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.
C. B. Macpherson on Retrieving Liberal Radicalism
The 20th century political theorist has much to offer for the contemporary left liberal.
A Resilient Spirit Yearning for Justice: The Arab World Today
Powerlessness in the Arab World, thirteen years after the Arab Spring.
An American Reconstruction
The revolution will take place within the modes and orders of American law even as it distorts and transforms that law.
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.
The Case Against Despair
In politics sometimes you’re in government, sometimes you’re in the opposition, and sometimes you’re a dissident.
Yes to a Living City: Applying Jacobs' Principles to New York's Rezoning
The urbanism of Jane Jacobs, then and now.