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The Constitutional Bind
How did Americans come to revere the Constitution? What has this reverence meant domestically and around the world? How well-equipped to respond to mounting democratic threats is this centuries old document? How does it exacerbate the worst features of American politics? In a pathbreaking retelling of the American experience, Aziz Rana’s new book (The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them) explores how a flawed document attained quasi-mythical status in American political culture, and how it has unleashed an interventionist national security state abroad while undermining the possibility of deeper change at home. Michael Hardt (Empire) and Jaleh Mansoor (Marshall Plan Modernism) join Aziz on stage at Town Hall Seattle for a Red May-hosted discussion of this vital new book.
Aziz Rana, Michael Hardt, Jaleh Mansoor. Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
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