Mark Dunbar
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A Visit to the New Vonnegut Library and Museum
Canonization can do irreparable harm to a person's reputation. What got them notoriety in the first place was their willingness to fight for something,... Read More
Book Review: Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
BY RONAN FARROW LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, 2019 414 PP.; $30.00 "It's a big club, and you ain't in it." So goes the punchline... Read More
The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent
P.E. MOSKOWITZ BOLD TYPE BOOKS, 2019 272 PP.; $28.00 Words like “controversial” and “provocative” are overused. When you read or hear that so-and-so’s stand-up... Read More
Of Gods & Bosses
RELIGIOUS FEELING has always been a catalyst for both extreme resistance and extreme acquiescence to power. As Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1845 memoir,... Read More
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
BY COREY ROBIN HENRY HOLT & CO., 2019 320 PP.; $30.00 Clarence Thomas is the most right-wing justice on the Supreme Court, and one... Read More
Imperial Borders and Mythical Frontiers
IMMIGRATION IS THE FOCAL POINT of the political moment, and it is the thing we Americans think about most foolishly—with the least history or... Read More
Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court
BY SIMON TAM TROUBLEMAKER PRESS, 2019 326 PP.; $26.99 Debates on free speech nowadays tend to revolve around whether one should be free to... Read More