
Northwestern law professor + anthropologist. Northwestern law professor + anthropologist. Thirty years studying institutions and the decisions people make within them. For accomplished people working out what comes next.
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It isn't the people. It's the infrastructure.
Dear Friends,
Dear Friend,
Thanks so much for being here.
This is a Substack for people who are leaving the straight road.
The straight road is the one that was paved for us.
It’s the institutions we were trained to believe in, and that we built our...
Lawyer Yuki Ashina shares her work defending foreign brides in our Salon October 9 7pm
Dear Friends,
George and Barbara Bush, on their Pigeon bicycles, in 1974
Dear Friends,
In 1974, George H. W. Bush was the American envoy in Beijing, and there were almost no cars on the road. He and Barbara got around the city on Flying Pigeon bicycles...
Dear Friends,
The day after the commemoration of the bombing of Nagasaki this August, I was at a meeting of the Nagasaki association of atomic bombing survivors. The president of the association, Dr. Masao Tomonaga came in. He passed me at...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Northwestern law professor + anthropologist. Thirty years studying institutions and the decisions people make within them. For accomplished people working out what comes next.
Author, ghostwriter, MFA prof. & defender of democracy. Novels: Glorious Boy, Flash House, Cloud Mountain, Face. Nonfiction: Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders. Also in LAT, LARB, The Common, Solstice, New England Review.
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