Michael O'Donnell | The Nation

Can recordings of classical music ever be in concert with concert hall performances?

The Partisan is a weak account of the career and legal thinking of a conservative and obstreperous chief justice.

Dale Carpenter's exceptional account of the history of Lawrence v. Texas.

A lack of local democracy and equal protection has led to the collapse of the American criminal justice system.

The musical and political strands of Dmitri Shostakovich's life were intertwined like the braids of a noose.

Justice William Brennan's watchword was human dignity, and to protect it he interpreted individual rights expansively.

Franklin Roosevelt v. the Supreme Court.

Like Charles Dickens's Gradgrind, Justice Louis Brandeis wanted facts.

Who is the purest archetype of the conservative legal movement, Antonin Scalia or John Roberts?

An outstanding history of women's struggle for equality through the courts and in the legal profession.