At the Blog
On Monday, Genevieve Lakier kicked off a series on weaponizing antidiscrimination law by explaining how Title VI, perhaps the crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement, has become one of the most powerful forces against desegregation. Look forward to posts by Darryl Li, Risa Lieberwitz & Rana Jaleel, Sam Bagenstos, and Noah Zatz & Jerry Kang.
On Tuesday, in a response to Gabe Winant’s provocation about Marxism and Antitrust, Sanjukta Paul reflected on whether capitalism operates by quasi-automatic mechanisms, the salience of the labor-small capital distinction, and the nature of the constraints limiting our current political horizon.
And on Thursday, Ally Coll and Justin Gravlee analyzed how the Supreme Court’s NIH v. APHA decision, by forcing plaintiffs to file duplicative lawsuits in different courts, will prevent them from attaining adequate relief from illegal government action.
In LPE Land
Cool conference alert: Today (Friday, Sept. 26), from 12–6:45 PM EST, NOMOS will be holding a conference on Capitalism and Socialism (at Harvard + open to all on Zoom). There will be panels on papers by David Grewal (“Is Law the Form of Value?”), Alex Gourevitch (“Who Should Do What To Whom? A Puzzle About the Socialist Critique of Capitalism”), and Aaron James (“Money and Other Public Things”). The schedule and zoom link are available here.
Cool new book alert: Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power by Jamila Michener and Mallory E. SoRelle.
In the Nation, Erik Baker reviews John Cassidy’s Capitalism and Its Critics: A History From the Industrial Revolution to AI.
In the Boston Review, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò reflects on Ezra Klein and the virtues of shame.
In the New York Times, Jamelle Bouie argues that the fight over Lisa Cook is about the very foundations of the American political order.
