![]() NYTimes 08/22/19
"A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped upon Greenland" President Trump is not the first to see the island as ripe for exploitation. That would be the Danish. ![]() Public Domain Review 07/10/19
"The Myth of Blubber Town, an Arctic Metropolis" The 17th-century Dutch whaling station Smeerenburg was rumored to have churches, bakeries, gambling dens and brothels. But did it ever exist? |
The Atlantic 10/231/19
"The Lawless Race to Harvest Arctic Icebergs" $166 water could dictate international iceberg law. Atlas Obscura 06/27/19
"The World's Fastest Glacier" Greenland's Sermeq Kujalleq, also known as the Jakobshavn glacier, travels 130 miles a day, causes earthquakes, and produced the iceberg that sank the Titanic. |
Foreign Affairs 07/18/19
Can Greenland Win Independence By Selling Melted Ice? The world's biggest island taps a resource it has always had. ![]() Indian Country Today "Stop Judging 'Indian Character'"
The Supreme Court should abandon culturally fraught tests that undermine indigenous sovereignty and dignity. |
The Washington Post 10/10/17
"Stop Coming Out" On how the rhetoric of gay empowerment is actually marginalizing LGBTQ people. ![]() Electric Lit 04/24/18
"Why Do So Many Judges Cite Jane Austen?" It is a truth universally acknowledged that Austen quotes keep showing up in legal decisions |
The Paris Review 01/15/19
"A Lost Piece of Trans History" Before the Nazis took power, a magazine in Weimar Germany helped trans people find their voices. Bloomberg 12/26/13
"Annenberg's Double-Edged Gift to the Hopi" Why it was a mistake for a charitable foundation to buy indigenous artifacts at auction and return them to the tribe. |
Academic articles
"Freud on the Court"
Teenagers who "sext" are charged with violating child pornography laws. I think it is because we're all a little too Freudian “The Trial of the Marquise von O…"
An 1808 literary classic about rape and pregnancy upends tradition by making a woman the savviest legal actor |
"Unclassified Fictions"
A look at how the CIA's collaboration with Hollywood is undermining the justification for secrecy law "Goethe's Magic Flute Sequel"
Germany's most famous polymath wrote a horrible follow-up to the century's best-selling opera. I explain why |
"Tipping NAGPRA's Balancing Act"
On my problems with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act |