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REGULARS / REVIEWS / BOOKS Standing in a metaphysical doorway Psychologist and philosopher William James was more of a fortean than we realise, says Eric Hoffman, sceptical about both the [...]

Editors note: This chapter was previously published as chapter 4 of John J. Mearsheimer's hook, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities (New Haven, CT: Yale University Tress, 2018). [...]

For the Balkinization symposium on James E. Fleming, (https://www.amazon.com/Constructing-Basic-Liberties-Defense-Substantive/dp/0226821404) Constructing Basic Liberties: A Defense of Substantive Due Process (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Aziza Ahmed The ability to access abortion [...]

For the Balkinization symposium on James E. Fleming, (https://www.amazon.com/Constructing-Basic-Liberties-Defense-Substantive/dp/0226821404) Constructing Basic Liberties: A Defense of Substantive Due Process (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Guha Krishnamurthi Thanks very much to Professor [...]

For the Balkinization symposium on James E. Fleming, (https://www.amazon.com/Constructing-Basic-Liberties-Defense-Substantive/dp/0226821404) Constructing Basic Liberties: A Defense of Substantive Due Process (University of Chicago Press, 2022). In Constructing Basic Liberties, Professor James Fleming [...]

For the Balkinization symposium on James E. Fleming, (https://www.amazon.com/Constructing-Basic-Liberties-Defense-Substantive/dp/0226821404) Constructing Basic Liberties: A Defense of Substantive Due Process (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Ilan Wurman My sincerest thanks to James [...]

For the Balkinization symposium on James E. Fleming, (https://www.amazon.com/Constructing-Basic-Liberties-Defense-Substantive/dp/0226821404) Constructing Basic Liberties: A Defense of Substantive Due Process (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Carlos A. Ball It is the best [...]

(https://www.amazon.com/Constructing-Basic-Liberties-Defense-Substantive/dp/0226821404) This week at Balkinization we are hosting a symposium on Jim Fleming's new book, (https://www.amazon.com/Constructing-Basic-Liberties-Defense-Substantive/dp/0226821404) Constructing Basic Liberties: A Defense of Substantive Due Process (University of Chicago Press, 2022). [...]

Byline: Ullekh NP NORWEGIAN SOCIOLOGIST and political scientist Stein Ringen is renowned for his obsession with democracy. He has said in recent interviews that it is so because he is [...]

AHAB'S ROLLING SEA: A Natural History of Moby-Dick BY RICHARD J. KING University of Chicago Press, 464 pp., $30 In September 1891, retired District Inspector No. 75 for the Port [...]

Zo Burkholder is professor of educational foundations and the director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Project at Montclair State University. She is the author of (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/an-african-american-dilemma-9780190605131?cc=us&lang=en&) An [...]

For the Symposium on Kurt Lash, (https://www.amazon.com/Reconstruction-Amendments-Essential-Documents/dp/022668878X) The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents (University of Chicago Press, 2021)(2 vols.). Kurt Lash My deep and sincere thanks to Jack Balkin for [...]

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For the Symposium on Kurt Lash, (https://www.amazon.com/Reconstruction-Amendments-Essential-Documents/dp/022668878X) The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents (University of Chicago Press, 2021)(2 vols.). Lee J. Strang Collections of important historical documents have long held [...]

For the Symposium on Kurt Lash, (https://www.amazon.com/Reconstruction-Amendments-Essential-Documents/dp/022668878X) The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents (University of Chicago Press, 2021)(2 vols.). Darrell A.H. Miller Constitutional history is uniquely susceptible to the twin [...]

For the Symposium on Kurt Lash, (https://www.amazon.com/Reconstruction-Amendments-Essential-Documents/dp/022668878X) The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents (University of Chicago Press, 2021)(2 vols.). Bradley Rebeiro In his introduction to his two volumes of essential [...]

For the Symposium on Kurt Lash, (https://www.amazon.com/Reconstruction-Amendments-Essential-Documents/dp/022668878X) The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents (University of Chicago Press, 2021)(2 vols.). Having offered very general remarks about Kurt Lash's valuable collection of [...]

For the Symposium on Kurt Lash, (https://www.amazon.com/Reconstruction-Amendments-Essential-Documents/dp/022668878X) The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents (University of Chicago Press, 2021)(2 vols.). What follows is a two-part review of Kurt Lash's truly important [...]

For the Symposium on Kurt Lash, (https://www.amazon.com/Reconstruction-Amendments-Essential-Documents/dp/022668878X) The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents (University of Chicago Press, 2021)(2 vols.). In 1998, when Sandy Levinson and I wrote about (https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/260/) the [...]

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(https://www.amazon.com/Reconstruction-Amendments-Essential-Documents/dp/022668878X) This week at Balkinization we are hosting a symposium on Kurt Lash's new two volume collection, (https://www.amazon.com/Reconstruction-Amendments-Essential-Documents/dp/022668878X) The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents (University of Chicago Press, 2021)(2 vols.). [...]

John Rhodes is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, has served on UK international vaccine missions, and published numerous articles in leading journals such as Nature, Science, and [...]

Historian, public speaker, and cultural critic Elwood Watson, Ph.D., is a professor at East Tennessee State University and author of the recent book (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/K/bo40060337.html%C2%A0) Keepin' It Real: Essays on Race [...]

A Conspiratorial Life, by Edward H. Miller, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021, 456 pages, hardcover. The cover jacket of Robert H. Miller's A Conspiratorial Life is black. What other [...]

United Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity by Lilliana Mason University of Chicago Press, 192 pp. In June 2012, a hopeful Barack Obama predicted that once he won reelection, the [...]

The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin by Katherine J. Cramer University of Chicago Press, 256 pp. Why Washington Won't Work: Polarization, Political Trust, and the Governing Crisis by [...]

Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary: War and the Animated Film by Donna Kornhaber University of Chicago Press, $35, pp. 279 Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian major-general blown up by the US [...]

Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick by Richard J. King University of Chicago Press, 23 [pounds sterling], pp. 464 Anyone who has read Moby-Dick will recognise the moment, [...]

Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents by Matthew L. Schuerman University of Chicago Press, 320 pp. Gentrification is all around us,' declares Matthew L. Schuerman in his new book, Newcomers. 'It's [...]

Four classic books for a garden club reading list THE GLORY OF ROSES by Allen Lacy, with photographs by Christopher Baker (Abrams) A photographic celebration of the delicate, determined rose [...]

'We have not honored the masters of the culinary profession by keeping their memories,' writes University of South Carolina food historian David Shields in the introduction to his new book [...]

Dark Lens by Francoise Meltzer University of Chicago Press, 14.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 256 Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans by Florian Huber Allen Lane, 14.99 [...]

Nightingales in Berlin: Searching for the Perfect Sound by David Rothenberg University of Chicago Press, 20 [pounds sterling], pp. 174 In a sense, the song of the bird in the [...]

Byline: JENNIFER B. MCDONALD The 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style went on sale yesterday. In a nod to the past, the University of Chicago Press is offering [...]

Byline: JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Last month, Glenn Beck nearly caused a riot at the warehouses of the University of Chicago Press when he ran an hour-long television special on 'The Road [...]

One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery Karyn L. Freeman University of Chicago Press, 2014 Karyn Freeman's book made me understand how fortunate I am to [...]

The Politics of Information: Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones University of Chicago Press, 264 pp. We humans have [...]

The Road to Serfdom: The Definitive Edition, by F.A. Hayek (edited by Bruce Caldwell), University of Chicago Press, 2014 edition, 283 pages, paperback. F.A. Hayek, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and [...]