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The definitive biography of Hu Yaobang, who, as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s, promoted popular reforms... Læs mere
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Since the 1960s, the Supreme Court has enabled mass incarceration through rulings that violate... Læs mere
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Dreaming Reality looks to mystical traditions to challenge orthodoxies of brain science that model consciousness... Læs mere
Sarah Lewis unearths the critical moment when Americans were confronted with the fictions shoring up the nation’s racial regime and learned to... Læs mere
After liberation in 1945, Koreans erupted with hopes for reform that had been bottled up during forty years of Japanese imperial rule. Arguing that... Læs mere
Bradley Rebeiro explores Frederick Douglass’s overlooked constitutional theory. Like today’s originalists, Douglass saw... Læs mere
Behind politicians’ praise of soldiers’ sacrifice is a troubling willingness to deny them training and equipment, order them to commit crimes, and deploy them to illegal... Læs mere
Acclaimed filmmaker Jon Else combines history, science, politics, popular culture, and personal testimony into a seamless narrative of the American... Læs mere
Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources, Donald Drakeman shows that the original meaning of the Constitution’s Free Exercise Clause referred... Læs mere