Stephanie on the oddest cases of the October Term, the Excessive Fines Clause meeting a flight to a dry town and why small facts make …
Nine years in a London attic, forty thousand words and one sentence about American liberty that my night class would not let go A Harmless …
Addison and Steele’s daily essay, the boy in Boston who copied it to learn prose and what a night class made of the first blog …
Teaching Phillis Wheatley, the enslaved Boston teenager whose book had to be printed in London, on a night when the class did not want to …
Tiny politicians, a flying island of experts and a man who ends up preferring horses: reading Swift with people who have jobs Gulliver’s Travels Is …
Stephanie on election law, the calendar that puts a voting case right after a vote, 35 Senate seats and a revolution that began with a …
Teaching Ben Franklin’s first hoaxes to a night class, and the almanac in which he killed off a rival who was still alive A Sixteen-Year-Old …
Stephanie on Collective Witness, the library that lent books to Washington, a Johnson talk, a Common Sense conservation display and the pleasures of a very …
James Otis argued against general search warrants in a Boston courtroom in 1761, and a headline about the Supreme Court tells me the argument is …
A joke about airlines selling the same seat four different ways went up next to the journal of a woman who made the trip in …
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