American Politics
Commentary: Populism’s two paths
Law professor Jedediah Purdy says the question is, which popular movement challenging mainstream politics -- the left’s or right’s -- will prevail?
Jedediah Purdy in The Nation
Law professor Jedediah Purdy says the question is, which popular movement challenging mainstream politics -- the left’s or right’s -- will prevail?
Jedediah Purdy in The Nation
“The next Supreme Court may have a fresh chance to define how the people go to the polls, and which people can go there at all.”
The New Yorker
The president’s belief in policies that can benefit all Americans is being repudiated by voters, in favor of a vision of politics as a zero-sum game, writes a Duke law professor.
The Atlantic
“That (Gov.) McCrory would seek out this wrong-side-of-history position reveals a lot about the fractured and desperate state of the Republican Party.”
The New Yorker
Law professor Jedediah Purdy believes that rather than being widely accepted, democratic capitalism “will continue to generate its own opposition, because it leaves both material needs and the appetite for recognition unsatisfied.”
Vox
Scalia’s “admirers are right that he was brilliant and that he cultivated a bold vision of the Constitution, but these qualities are precisely the source of the damage he leaves behind him,” writes law professor Jedediah Purdy.
The New Yorker
“Trump's campaign has been called everything from neo-fascist to post-argument. Its version of politics might also be called post-imagination.”
The author of the new book “After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene” looks at a world irrevocably changed by humans and finds that it demands a fundamentally different politics – one that places a moral value on climates and landscapes and takes responsibility for future generations.
Yale Environment 360
Constitutions were a great democratic advance. Unfortunately ours is broken, writes a Duke law professor.
New Republic
Sanders isn’t much of a socialist compared to some previous presidents, including Franklin Roosevelt.
the New Yorker
“The politics of climate change remains too shallow and weak even to turn this agreement into real change. All the action now returns to the 188 countries that, in theory, are now going to cut their carbon emissions.”
Foreign Policy
Law professor and author Jedediah Purdy talks to “The State of Things” about his writing, activism and the current state of political engagement in North Carolina.
WUNC