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Laurence H. Tribe ’62 once wrote that constitutional law’s “accumulated lines of thought and argument are indeed tantamount—however familiar the metaphor—to the threads of a complex tapestry.” The Harvard Law professor is now taking constitution-as-art one step further with a book that uses his own artwork to explain the nation’s founding charter...
...book is for those who are more right-brain than left-brain,” says Tribe, often considered to be the brains of the legal left...
This isn’t the first time that Tribe has gone public with his paintings. In the early 1950s—as a child in San Francisco—he won an art contest and received a bicycle as his prize. But rather than learn to ride the bike, Tribe sold it. It wasn’t until this summer that he moved past training wheels, finally learning “to ride a bike at the ripe...
...even though he couldn’t ride a bike, Tribe had been on a decades-long roll. Since 1978, he’s brought three dozen cases to the Supreme Court and won about two-thirds of them. The New York Times once declared his 1978 book—“American Constitutional Law”—“the closest thing to a definitive treatise on the Constitution.” In 2004 he received one of Harvard’s 20 prestigious University professorships—his post had previously been held...
...Think about your party's negatives A candidate's instinct is "to stick with your own tribe," Halperin says. But Clinton and Bush successfully addressed their parties' weak spots, like crime for the Dems and education for the G.O.P. "By doing that," says Halperin, "they not only appealed to independents but also strengthened their own parties." And their own electoral fortunes...