The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America
Noah Feldman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021, 368 pp.

After a dead period for much of the twenty-first century, a particular tool at the hands of the state has been dominating recent news cycles: antitrust law. This legal ability to fine, prevent, and “break up” different profit-maximizing tactics of economic actors is once more being favored by its wielder, the Federal Trade Commission.

János Kornai was born in 1928, in a century of bloody and tragic twists and turns. His homeland, Hungary, was especially a dangerous place during the 20th century. Among other things, it fell under both totalitarian regimes: Nazism and Communism.

Navigating the Judicial System can be a difficult endeavor for those unfamiliar with, untrained in, and inexperienced with legalistic language, court procedures, or even the resources for attorneys who are. This mixed with the often broad nature of the law makes the United States a highly litigious society with legal fees and spending on legal matters accounting for 2.2% of domestic GDP.

What Is Deconstruction?

Unlike the more structured curriculums of high school mathematics or science, the course load and topic choice for upper-level English classes is left largely undefined. For Advanced Placement classes, the College Board only focuses on necessary skills, leaving book choices, lesson plans, projects, and teaching methods up to the teachers.