Indian Writers on 75 Years of Independence and Partition

Indian Writers on 75 Years of Independence and Partition

Featuring Anita Desai, Hari Kunzru, Salman Rushdie, and More

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Who Has the Right to Bear Arms? A Brief History

Who Has the Right to Bear Arms? A Brief History

Elsa Dorlin on Legal Traditions of Self-Defense

By Elsa Dorlin | September 28, 2022

What Was Germany Like in the Decade After Hitler?

What Was Germany Like in the Decade After Hitler?

Harald Jähner on the No Man’s Time of Post WWII Germany

By Harald Jähner | September 28, 2022

How White Supremacy Was Codified Into Law in America

How White Supremacy Was Codified Into Law in America

Margaret A. Burnham on the Legal Legacy of Jim Crow

By Margaret A. Burnham | September 28, 2022

Elsie Robinson, the Most Popular American Woman Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

Elsie Robinson, the Most Popular American Woman Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

Allison Gilbert in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 28, 2022

Generation Amazing!!! How We’re Draining Language of Its Power

Generation Amazing!!! How We’re Draining Language of Its Power

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza on the “Maxim of Extravagance”

By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza | September 27, 2022

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Julia Reed on the Memories Woven Into Well-Worn Clothes

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How the Survivors of Slavery Used Material Objects to Preserve Intergenerational Wisdom

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Tiya Miles Considers the Importance of Material Ownership in the Context of Black History

By Tiya Miles | September 26, 2022

How American Shipyard Workers Might Offer Us Lessons on How to Reunite the Country

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How a Lawyer of the Downtrodden Came To Represent Two Wealthy Killers

How a Lawyer of the Downtrodden Came To Represent Two Wealthy Killers

Greg King and Penny Wilson on Clarence Darrow, Leopold and Loeb's Defense Attorney

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Neither Natural Nor Inevitable: How Language Masks Gentrification

Neither Natural Nor Inevitable: How Language Masks Gentrification

Leslie Kern on Biological and Evolutionary Metaphors in Urban Planning

By Leslie Kern | September 22, 2022

Hemingway made fun of Fitzgerald's boxing abilities in a newly-uncovered short story.

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