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Did The Biden Administration Violate The First Amendment?, Bruce Ledewitz
Did The Biden Administration Violate The First Amendment?, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
What Bad Decisions By Ron Desantis And Gavin Newsom Have In Common, Bruce Ledewitz
What Bad Decisions By Ron Desantis And Gavin Newsom Have In Common, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
By Any Measure, Liberal Democracy Is Superior. Here’S Why, Bruce Ledewitz
By Any Measure, Liberal Democracy Is Superior. Here’S Why, Bruce Ledewitz
Newspaper Columns
Collected biweekly contributions to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.
Speculative Constitutions In Ursula K. Le Guin’S Hainish Cycle And The Rights Of Nature, Ted Hamilton
Speculative Constitutions In Ursula K. Le Guin’S Hainish Cycle And The Rights Of Nature, Ted Hamilton
Faculty Journal Articles
This paper examines two speculative examinations of humanity as a unified species and agent of ecological change: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle and the rights of nature movement. Le Guin’s Cycle imagines the slow interplanetary reintegration of human polities against a backdrop of cultural and environmental difference. I read the novels of the Cycle as an allegory for the rights of nature movement, which seeks to synthesize traditional and modern knowledge in a legal solution to ecological crisis. Both discourses, I argue, productively imagine a new historical understanding of humanity’s place on Earth, but they provide a weak theory …