What Do You Have to Lose? Mark Danner on the Forever War
Mark Danner delivers eloquent and brutally direct assessments of the war policies of both Bush and Obama.
Mark Danner delivers eloquent and brutally direct assessments of the war policies of both Bush and Obama.
Stephen Rohde on Timothy Garton Ash's "Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World."
Stephen Rohde discusses the possible elimination of the death penalty.
Stephen Rohde’s reflection on his career as an LA civil rights lawyer, particularly regarding the First Amendment.
Stephen Rohde reviews a book on of one of our nation’s most important political and historical documents: The Bill of Rights.
The very first dissent was written by Justice Thomas Johnson in the long forgotten case of "Georgia v. Brailsford" (1793).
Beyond his impressive legal career, Charles Rembar wrote three fascinating books, which have just been released in ebook format.
It's the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
Patriotic Betrayal is a cautionary tale about how our government compromises well-meaning people in the name of fighting “our enemies.”
While paying lip service to the “poetry” of the First Amendment, Burt Neuborne turns his book into an argument in favor of less First Amendment...
Jake Heggie talks with LARB's Stephen Rohde about his opera, "Dead Man Walking" and its treatment, musically and dramatically, of the death penalty.
Why would a pluralistic and secular society single out for special treatment any system of belief?