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Chief Justice John Roberts at the State of the Union on March 7.

The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a King

The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.
by Holly Brewer via The New Republic
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on July 1, 2024
U.S. presidential seal

Founding-Era History Doesn’t Support Trump’s Immunity Claim

Historians Rosemarie Zagarri and Holly Brewer explain the anti-monarchical origins of the Constitution and the presidency.
by Rosemarie Zagarri, Holly Brewer via Brennan Center For Justice on February 21, 2024
Lithograph of John Locke

Race and Enlightenment: The Story of a Slander

A rebuttal to Ibram X. Kendi's assertion that modern racism had its origins in the 1690 writings of John Locke.
by Holly Brewer via Liberties Journal
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on October 5, 2021
"Slave Ship" painting (1840) by J M W Turner. Courtesy the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Does Locke’s Entanglement With Slavery Undermine His Philosophy?

John Locke took part in administering the slave-owning colonies. Does that make him, and liberalism itself, hypocritical?
by Holly Brewer via Aeon on December 12, 2017
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