El Niño, Catastrophism, and Culture Change in Ancient America

Recent News

• Carol Sanger, author of About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America, explained the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to viewers of CBS Sunday Morning.
• Mary Ziegler, author of After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate, argued in the New York Times that the decades-long fight to reverse Roe was not an effort to “restore” democracy but instead an attempt to change the way American democracy functions (or doesn’t).
• 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.
• O. Carter Snead, author of What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics, explored at CNN Opinion why “Roe and its progeny have been very bad for America.”