• National Security: The Sublime and the Bureaucratic

    By MARK FENSTER

    Review of The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy, by Matthew Potolsky and Paranoid Visions: Spies, Conspiracies and the Secret State in British Television Drama, byJoseph Oldham.
    February 19, 2020

  • The Book of the Dead

    By JOHN MCCALLUM

    Review of The Cold War’s Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace, by Paul Thomas Chamberlin
    February 12, 2020

  • The Varieties of Religious Expedience

    By ROBERT MARK SIMPSON

    Review of Interior States: Essays, by Meghan O'Gieblyn
    February 05, 2020

  • Common Sense Capitalism

    By GLORY M. LIU

    Review of Free Enterprise: An American History, by Lawrence Glickman
    January 29, 2020

  • The Unsettling Voice of Clarence Thomas

    By CONNOR M. EWING

    Review of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, by Corey Robin
    January 22, 2020

  • Political Philosophy and the Search for the Possible

    By BRIAN KOGELMANN

    Review of In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy, by Katrina Forrester
    January 15, 2020

  • Breaking Capitalism’s Spell

    By GERALD J. RUSSELLO

    Review of The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, by Eugene McCarraher
    January 08, 2020

  • Elizabeth Strout’s Compassionate Realism

    By CHARLIE TYSON

    Review of Olive, Again, by Elizabeth Strout
    December 18, 2019

  • Involving Orcs

    By ANDREW KOPPELMAN

    Review of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed, by Lisa Duggan
    December 12, 2019

  • People Power

    By BENJAMIN SIEGEL

    Review of Opium's Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control, by Steffen Rimner.
    December 04, 2019

  • How to Influence People

    BySTEVEN LUBET

    Review of Writing to Persuade, by Trish Hall.
    November 27, 2019

  • Forget it Jake, It's 2019

    ByZACHARY HERZ

    Review of Your House Will Pay, by Steph Cha.
    November 20, 2019

  • Heartland Empire

    By MICHAEL FRANCZAK

    Review of The Heartland: An American History, by Kristin L. Hoganson.
    November 14, 2019

  • Radical Movements

    By CHRISTOPHER SZABLA

    Review of Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire, by Renisa Mawani.
    November 06, 2019

  • Soft Perversions

    By JORDAN ALEXANDER STEIN

    Review of The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergence of Sexuality, by Benjamin Kahan.
    October 30, 2019

  • The Urgency of Abolition

    By JESSE A. GOLDBERG

    Review of History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing, by Jeffrey Insko.
    October 28, 2019

  • The Precipice’s Edge for Israel and Palestine

    By EMILY WHALEN

    Review of Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo, by Seth Anziska and Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance, by Tareq Baconi
    October 23, 2019

  • Someone Must Have Been Talking Law About Franz K

    By STEVEN WILF

    Review of Kafka’s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy, by Benjamin Balint
    October 16, 2019

  • Originalist Scholarship and Conservative Politics

    By CALVIN TERBEEK

    Review of A Republic, If You Can Keep It, by Neil Gorsuch, and Originalism's Promise: A Natural Law Account of the American Constitution, by Lee J. Strang
    October 09, 2019

  • Path-Takers and Way-Makers

    By STEVEN LUBET

    Review of The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts, by Joan Biskupic, and First: Sandra Day O’Connor, by Evan Thomas
    October 07, 2019

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