The following are recent books and articles published by our SideBar guests. Although we encourage you to read them prior to the guest's appearance on SideBar, you may also choose to read them as a follow-up to each program for more in-depth ideas, opinions, and information. Go to the "Articles" page for additional resources by other writers, filmakers, and commentators.
Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines (2022)
https://www.amazon.com/Laboratories-Autocracy-Wake-Up-Behind-Lines/dp/1662919573
Saving Democracy: A User's Manual for Every American (2023)
Vigilante Federalism (with Jon D. Michaels) (2023)
Administrative Sabotage (2022)
Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America (2022)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/598207/lady-justice-by-dahlia-lithwick/
The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future (2022)
https://www.amazon.com/Equality-Machine-Harnessing-Technology-Inclusive/dp/1541774752
Dare To Speak: Defending Free Speech for All (2020)
American Society: How It Really Works, 2nd Edition (with E.O. Wright (2015)
https://www.amazon.com/American-Society-Really-Works-Second/dp/0393938859
“A More Democratic Federalism?” (with X. de Sousa) (2021) https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/62/a-more-democratic-federalism/
Who Is to Judge? The Perennial Debate Over Whether to Elect or Appoint America’s Judges (2019)
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Judge-Perennial-Whether-Americas/dp/0190887141
Courting Peril: The Political Transformation of the American Judiciary (2015)
https://www.amazon.com/Courting-Peril-Political-Transformation-Judiciary/dp/0190233494
Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas (2022)
https://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Justice-Environmental-Douglas_Public-Conservation/dp/1640123008
American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (2022)
https://www.amazon.com/American-Shtetl-Hasidic-Village-Upstate/dp/0691199779
He Drew a Circle that Shut Me Out: Assimilation, Indoctrination, and the Paradox of a Liberal Education (1993)
The Third Reconstruction - America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century (2022)
https://www.amazon.com/Third-Reconstruction-Americas-Struggle-Twenty-First
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America (2006)
Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision-Making (2022)
https://www.amazon.com/Persuading-Supreme-Court-Significance-Decision-Making-ebook/dp/B0BDQ272TQ
The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary (2023)
Justice System Disparities: Black-White National Imprisonment Trends, 2000 to 2020 (2022)
https://counciloncj.foleon.com/reports/racial-disparities/national-trends
After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It (2023)
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Julie-Suk/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJulie+Suk
We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (2022)
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Julie-Suk/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJulie+Suk
The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic (2023)
https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Docket-Supreme-Undermine-Republic/dp/1541602633
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution (2022)
https://www.amazon.com/Allow-Me-Retort-Black-Constitution/dp/1620976811
The Best Beloved Thing is Justice: The Life of Dorothy Wright Nelson (2022)
Playing it Safe: How the Supreme Court Sidesteps Hard Cases and Stunts the Development of Law (2001)
https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Safe-Supreme-Sidesteps-Development/dp/081474740X
Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the Criminal Alien (2024)
Crimmigration Law (2015)
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=9781641059459&i=stripbooks&linkCode=qs
Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation (2023)
https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12911/liar-crowded-theater
The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet (2019)
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Jeff-Kosseff/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJeff+Kosseff
The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech (2022)
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Jeff-Kosseff/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJeff+Kosseff
Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health (2023)
https://www.amazon.com/Constitutional-Contagion-Courts-Public-Health/dp/1009098330
Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable (2023)
https://www.amazon.com/Shielded-How-Police-Became-Untouchable/dp/0593299361
Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis (2024)
Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court (2022)
https://www.amazon.com/Shortlisted-Women-Shadows-Supreme-Court/dp/1479811963/ref=monarch_sidesheet
A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy (2024)
Race and Election Law: Interest-Convergence, Minority Voting Rights, and America’s Progress Toward a Multiracial Democracy, in The Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States (2023)
The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back (2024)
https://www.amazon.com/Originalism-Trap-Extremists-Constitution-People/dp/0593729250
Female Genius. Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution (2022)
https://www.amazon.com/Female-Genius-Harriot-Washington-Constitution/dp/0813947197
Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (2020)
Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away with It (2023)
Imperfect Union: How Errors of Omission Threaten Constitutional Democracy (2024)
https://www.amazon.com/Imperfect-Union-Omission-Constitutional-Democracy/dp/1680538438
Then Comes Marriage: How Two Women Fought for and Won Equal Dignity for All (2016)
https://www.amazon.com/Then-Comes-Marriage-Fought-Dignity/dp/0393353362
No Democracy Lasts Forever
How the Constitution Threatens the United States (2024)
Pardon Power: How The Pardon System Works—And Why (2024)
https://www.amazon.com/How-Pardon-Power-Works_and-Why/dp/1954907508
Vigilante Nation How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy (2024)
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigilante-Nation/Jon-Michaels/9781668023235
Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer’s Pursuit of Equal Justice for All (2024)
Lawyer Nation: The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal Profession (2024)
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