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October 26, 2006

Legal Issues

Over at the Brecher Brief I have two posts worth mentioning: In "Married and Gay in New Jersey" I consider how appropriate it is to use the judicial process to fight for fight for fundamental rights. I'd also recommend Dahlia Lithwick's argument in Slate.

In "The Military Commissions Act: A Right to Torture?" I argue that it is dangerous--and unnecessary--to alter the Constitution even in the "war on terrorism.

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"Stephen John Mack's The Pragmatic Whitman: Reimagining American Democracy, [is] The most thoroughly informed philosophical reading of Whitman to appear in decades. Mack develops the premise . . . That Whitman shares with John Dewey a vision of democracy as a 'civic religion' in America, a profoundly secularist and progressive perspective.

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