Commonwealth

Recent News

• Kathryn Gin Lum, author of Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, described to Salon how Americans set themselves apart from a world of sufferers, as a superior people and a humanitarian people.
• At The Nation, Wild by Design author Laura Martin traced the Cold War origins of environmental management.
• The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution authors Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath spoke with The Majority Report’s Sam Seder about how the two major U.S. parties relate to the Supreme Court: institutionalist liberals bask in the afterglow of the Warren court, while the GOP sees opposition to the Court’s “progressive” nature as central to their victories.
• At the Washington Post, What It Means to Be Human author O. Carter Snead and Abortion and Divorce in Western Law author Mary Ann Glendon called on “pro-life” proponents to embrace public commitments to supporting pregnant people and their children in order to fully realize their own ethics of “unconditional love and radical hospitality.”