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Jedediah Purdy
Forthcoming
- A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom (Knopf, forthcoming March 2009)
- Presidential Popular Constitutionalism, Fordham Law Review (forthcoming)
- Climate Change and the Limits of the Possible, Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum (forthcoming 2008)
- Corn Futures: Consumer Politics, Health, and Climate Change, Environmental Law Reporter (forthcoming 2008) (with James Salzman)
- Presidential Language and the Constitutional Community, in Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force (James B. White & H. Jefferson Powell eds., University of Michigan Press, forthcoming)
- The Private-Law Origins of Sovereign Power: Trusteeship, Agency, and Wardship, Law & Contemporary Problems (forthcoming 2007)
Books
- Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Life of American Democracy (Yale University Press, 2004) (editor with Anthony T. Kronman & Cynthia Farrar)
- Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World (Knopf 2003)
- For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today (1999)
Articles and Essays
- People as Resources: Recruitment and Reciprocity in the Freedom-Promoting Approach to Property, 56 Duke Law Journal 1047-1117 (2007)
- Property and Empire: The Law of Imperialism in Johnson v. M'Intosh, 75 George Washington Law Review 329-371 (2007)
- Sovereigns, Trustees, Guardians: Private-Law Concepts and the Limits of Legitimate State Power, 70 Law & Contemporary Problems 165-211 (Summer 2007) (with Kimberly Fielding)
- History, Human Nature, and Property Regimes: Filling in the Civilizing Argument, 50 Saint Louis University Law Journal 735-750 (2006) (Comment on Carol Rose's 2005 Childress Lecture)
- The American Transformation of Waste Doctrine: A Pluralist Interpretation, 91 Cornell Law Review 653-698 (2006)
- The Limits of Courage and Principle, 104 Michigan Law Review 1501-1521 (2006) (reviewing Michael Ignatieff, The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004))
- The New Biopolitics, Democracy 6-18 (Summer 2006)
- The New Biopolitics: Autonomy, Demography, and Nationhood, 2006 Brigham Young University Law Review 889-955
- The New Open Society: Has The New Utopia Promised By The Tech Boom’s Cyber-Prophets Lived Up To Its Billing? Depends On The Book, American Prospect, Nov. 5, 2006 (reviewing Cass Sunstein, Infotopia: How Many Minds
Produce Knowledge (2006) and Yochai
Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and
Freedom (2006))
- The Promise (and Limits) of Neuroeconomics, 58 Alabama Law Review 1-40 (2006)
- A Freedom-Promoting Approach to Property: A Renewed Tradition for New Debates, 72 University of Chicago Law Review 1237-1298 (2005)
- The Ethics of Empire, Again (Review Essay), 93 California Law Review 1773-1817 (2005) (reviewing, Noah Feldman, What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building (Princeton University Press, 2004))
- The New Liberal Imperialism: Assessing the Arguments, in Global Institutions and Responsibilities 323-338 (Christian Barry & Thomas W. Pogge eds., 2005)
- So Sue Me, New York Times Book Review, April 22, 2001, at 20 (reviewing Philip K. Howard, Lost Art of Drawing the Line: How Fairness Went Too Far (2001))
- The New Biopolitics: Autonomy, Demography and Nationhood, 2006 Brigham Young University Law Review 889-955
- Freedom's Next Fight, 15 American Prospect 54-55 (June 2004) (reviewing Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativity (2004))
- A World of Passions: How to Think About Globalization Now, 11 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 1-49 (2004)
- Liberal Empire: Assessing the Arguments, 17 Ethics and International Affairs (Fall 2003)
- Book Review, The Values of the Market 16 Ethics and International Affairs (Fall 2002)
Newspaper Articles and Commentary
- Intellectual Climate Change, The Guardian (London), Nov. 20, 2007
- A Way in the World, 23 Duke Law Magazine 33-34 (Spring 2005)
- Democracy and Disaster, Die Zeit, September 2005
- Neoliberalism Comes to Domestic Policy, La Vanguardia, January 20, 2005
- Where Do Progressives Go Now?, The Principles Project, January 2005
- A Vote for Kerry Is a Vote for the American Dream, Charleston Gazette, October 2004
- American Eating, American Politics, Die Zeit, October 2004
- Democratic Conscience, Democratic Sense, La Vanguardia, October 2004
- Democrats After the Election, Die Welt, November 2004
- Kerrys Dilemma, La Vanguardia, October 2004
- Questions for President Bush (contributor), New York Times op-ed page, October 8 , 2004
- Voting for John Kerry Guarantees Saving the American Dream, Charleston Gazette, October 11, 2004, at P5A
- Suspicious Minds, The Atlantic Monthly, January/February, 2003 at 82
- Civilization of Violence?, Die Zeit, August 2002
- The Pure Heart, Die Zeit, February 2002
- The Young American, Esquire, December, 2002, at 161
- After Innocence, Die Zeit, September 2001
- Gary Condit’s Strong, Silent Act, New York Times op-ed page, August 26, 2001
- The Universal Nation, Prospect ( U.K.), October, 2001
- The Way We Say Goodnight, Shout, November 2001
- Us and Them, Die Zeit, August 2001
- America’s Crisis of Legitimacy, Die Zeit, November 2000
- How to Go to the Polls Twice, New York Times op-ed page, November 3, 2000
- Once Again, America Needs to Believe in Its Courts, New York Times Op-ed page, November 26, 2000
- Planet Bush, Planet Gore, American Prospect, November 20, 2000, at 34
- Shades of Green, American Prospect, January 3, 2000, at 6
- The Dilemma of Irony, Die Zeit, August 2000
- The Politics of Adulthood, New York Times op-ed page, August 9, 2000
- A Holiday that Plays to Our Strengths, New York Times, November 25, 1999, (Op-ed) A37
- After Apathy, American Prospect, December 6 1999, at 12
- From Purity to Politics, American Prospect, January/February 1999, at 82
- If Wishing Only Made It So, American Prospect, May 1999, at 86
- The New Culture of Rural America, American Prospect, December 20, 1999, at 26
- Dolly and Madison, American Prospect, May-June 1998, at 88
- Rape of the Appalachians, American Prospect, November/December 1998, at 28
- The Age of Irony, American Prospect, July/August 1998, at 84
- The Chicago Acid Bath, American Prospect, January 1998
- The God of the Digerati, American Prospect, March 1998
- Wendell Berry: An Appreciation, Boston Book Review, July 1998
- The Libertarian Conceit, American Prospect, November 1997