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Renowned feminist political theorist Susan M. Okin died last Wednesday, March 3, in her Lincoln, Mass., home...
...ideally suited to housing art exhibits—they emphasize horizontal rather than vertical planes and their curved walls present a curator’s nightmare. Rather, Maltzan creates social spaces or civic arcades, suggesting the derive or “drifting” approach to movement developed by theorist Guy Dubord in the late 1960s. Maltzan’s architecture is about observation, not stasis...
...problem is that Chomsky doesn’t care. He has never been able to compromise his beliefs for the sake of being accepted, and he doesn’t seem to mind the fact that most people dismiss him as a conspiracy theorist after such remarks. And while I do admire Chomsky for his unflinching integrity, I find myself wondering if he is more concerned with exposing injustice than removing injustice, more interested in criticizing America than in improving it. Chomsky is almost 75 years old and he has a choice to make: he can continue to radically dissent...
John Hart Ely, an innovative legal theorist and former Harvard professor whose ideas about constitutional interpretation widely influenced the discourse on democracy and the law over the past quarter century, died of cancer on Oct. 25 at his home in Coconut Grove...
...have understood the vulnerabilities of American democracy better than Alexis de Tocqueville, the 19thcentury French social theorist who coined the phrase “tyranny of the majority.” Although he distrusted democracies to get things right the first time, he was optimistic that they could learn from their excesses. “Let time do its work; a sense of the evil will enlighten the people and show them what they need,” he said. “The great privilege of the Americans is to be able to make retrievable mistakes...