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Fleeing to the Oceans
Leti Volpp Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 3:10 PM
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A review of Jeffrey S. Kahn, "Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire" (University of Chicago Press, 2019)
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The Irony of 'White House Warriors'
Christopher Fonzone Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 3:28 PM
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A review of John Gans, "White House Warriors: How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War" (Liveright, 2019).
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Trying (and Failing) to Put Kaiser Wilhelm II on Trial
Arshan Barzani Tue, Jul 30, 2019, 4:57 PM
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A review of William A. Schabas, “The Trial of the Kaiser” (Oxford University Press, 2018)
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Frankenstein at 200
Renee Anderson Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 6:30 PM
Review of Mary Shelley, “'Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds,’ ed. David H. Guston, Ed Finn, and Jason Scott Robert.” (MIT Press, 2018)
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Partisan Politics and Federal Law Enforcement: The Promise and Corruption of Reconstruction
Daniel Richman Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 3:22 PM
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A review of Charles Lane, ‘Freedom’s Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America’s First War on Terror" (Hanover Square Press, 2019)
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How to Lose the Rule of Law
Mary Ellen O’Connell Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 2:47 PM
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Review of Rebecca Sanders, “Plausible Legality: Legal Culture and Political Imperative in the Global War on Terror” (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
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Wishful Nationalism
Peter Spiro Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 2:00 PM
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A review of Yael Tamir, “Why Nationalism” (Princeton University Press, 2019)
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Keeping the Adversary’s Secrets Secret
Sam Winter-Levy Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 5:11 PM
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A review of Austin Carson, “Secret Wars: Covert Conflict in International Politics” (Princeton University Press, 2018)
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Justice, the Rule of Law and the Role of the Prosecutor
Chuck Rosenberg Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 2:06 PM
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A review of Preet Bharara, "Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and The Rule of Law" (Knopf, 2019)
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Jewish Human Rights
Doreen Lustig Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 3:57 PM
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A review of James Loeffler, “Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century” (Yale UP, 2018)
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With whom have we not spent heart-warming hours there, looking out from the terrace over the beautiful and peaceful landscape, without suspecting that exactly opposite, on the mountain of Berchtesgaden, a man sat who would one day destroy it all?