The Reading Room
On The Spirit of the Laws
Three branches of government, separated so that no single hand holds all the power: the idea is so woven into how Americans imagine government that it can feel like a...
On The Spirit of the Laws
Three branches of government, separated so that no single hand holds all the power: the idea is so woven into how Americans imagine government that it can feel like a...
On The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl Popper called The Open Society and Its Enemies his war work.
On The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl Popper called The Open Society and Its Enemies his war work.
On The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander recast the national argument over criminal justice by naming what she argued it does.
On The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander recast the national argument over criminal justice by naming what she argued it does.
On The Common Law
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. With that famous opening, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. announced, in 1881, a revolution in how Americans understood...
On The Common Law
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. With that famous opening, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. announced, in 1881, a revolution in how Americans understood...
On Gideon's Trumpet
A poor man named Clarence Earl Gideon, convicted of a petty crime in Florida and forced to defend himself because he could not afford a lawyer, sat in his prison...
On Gideon's Trumpet
A poor man named Clarence Earl Gideon, convicted of a petty crime in Florida and forced to defend himself because he could not afford a lawyer, sat in his prison...
On Democracy and Distrust
John Hart Ely set out to solve the deepest puzzle in American constitutional law, and Democracy and Distrust, published in 1980, offers the most influential answer of its era.
On Democracy and Distrust
John Hart Ely set out to solve the deepest puzzle in American constitutional law, and Democracy and Distrust, published in 1980, offers the most influential answer of its era.