Jedediah Purdy
Raphael Lemkin Distinguished Professor of Law
Jedediah S. Purdy re-joined the Duke Law faculty in 2022 from Columbia Law School, where he was the William S. Beinecke Professor of Law and co-director of the Constitutional Democracy Initiative. He previously served on the Duke Law faculty from 2004 to 2019, most recently as the Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law.
A prolific scholar, Purdy teaches and writes about environmental, property, and constitutional law as well as legal and political theory. He is the author of two books forthcoming in 2022, Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy Is Scary, Flawed, and Our Best Hope (Basic) and a new Norton College edition of Thoreau's writings, including Walden, "Civil Disobedience," and essays on slavery.
Purdy’s most recent book, This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth, explores how the land has historically united and divided Americans, shows how environmental politics has always been closely connected with issues of distribution and justice, and describes humanity as an “infrastructure species. In his previous book, After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene, he traced the long history of environmental law as a central feature of American political and cultural life. His other books include For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today, The Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community and the Legal Imagination, and A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom. His legal scholarship has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Cornell Law Review, Nomos, and Ecology Law Quarterly, among others. He has published essays on topics ranging from Elena Ferrante’s novels and socialism to natural disasters and the Green New Deal in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Die Zeit, and Democracy Journal.
Purdy clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York City. A member of the New York State Bar, he is a contributing editor of The American Prospect and serves on the editorial board of Dissent. He was active in the Moral Mondays movement in North Carolina and was voluntarily arrested for civil disobedience in 2013.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Raphael Lemkin Distinguished Professor of Law, Law School, Duke University 2022
- Professor of Law, Law School, Duke University 2022
Contact Information
- Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
- Duke Law School Room 4178, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
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purdy@law.duke.edu
(919) 613-7077
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- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- J.D., Yale University 2001
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of Law, Law School, Duke University 2009 - 2018
- Faculty Network Member of The Energy Initiative, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative, Initiatives 2012 - 2018
- Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law, Law School, Duke University 2013 - 2018
- Associate Professor of Law, Law School, Duke University 2007 - 2009
- Assistant Professor of Law, Law School, Duke University 2004 - 2007
- Recognition
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In the News
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- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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- Research
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Selected Grants
- Rethinking Humanity's Place in an Anthropocene World awarded by Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. 2016 - 2022
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Purdy, Jedediah. Walden (Accepted). W.W. Norton, 2023.
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Purdy, J. Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy Is Flawed, Frightening―and Our Best Hope. Basic Books, 2022.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy Is Flawed, Frightening—and Our Best Hope (Accepted). Basis Books, 2022.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth. Princeton University Press, 2019.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene. Harvard University Press, 2015.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. The Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community and the Legal Imagination. Yale University Press, 2010.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom. Knopf, 2009.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Life of American Democracy. Yale University Press, 2004.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World. Knopf, 2003.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today. Knopf, 1999.Link to Item
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Academic Articles
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Purdy, J. “The Promise of American Life.” The New Republic 253, no. 5 (2022): 46–50.
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Purdy, Jedediah, and Alyssa Battistoni. “After Carbon Democracy.” Dissent 67, no. 1 (2022): 51–60.
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Purdy, Jedediah. “Who Are the People?” Dissent 69, no. 3 (2022): 87–94.
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Purdy, Jedediah. “A Possible Majority.” Dissent 68, no. 1 (2021): 82–95.
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Purdy, J., D. Grewal, A. Kapczynski, and K. Rahman. “Building a Law-and-Political-Economy Framework: Beyond the Twentieth-Century Synthesis.” Yale Law Journal 129, no. 6 (2020): 1600–1945.Link to Item
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Purdy, Jedediah, and Aziz Rana. “We Need an Insurgent Mass Movement.” Dissent 67, no. 1 (2020): 76–90.
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Purdy, Jedediah. “Deep Problems.” Dissent 67, no. 3 (2020): 67–70.
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Purdy, Jedediah. “Solidarity and Crisis.” Dissent 67, no. 1 (2020): 25–34.
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Purdy, J. “Just in Theory.” The New Republic 250, no. 11 (2019): 63–67.
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Purdy, J. “The Long Environmental Justice Movement.” Ecology Law Quarterly 44 (2018): 809–64.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “Beyond the Bosses' Constitution: The First Amendment and Class Retrenchment.” Columbia Law Review 117, no. 7 (2018): 2161–86.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “Normcore.” Dissent 65, no. 3 (2018): 120–28.Link to Item
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Purdy, Jedediah. “Whose Lands? Which Public? The Shape of Public-Lands Law and Trump's National Monument Proclamations.” Ecology Law Quarterly 45, no. 4 (2018): 921–64.Link to Item
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Purdy, J., and D. Grewal. “The Original Theory of Constitutionalism.” Yale Law Journal 127, no. 3 (2017): 664–705.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “Paleo Politics,” 2017.
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Purdy, J. “A Billionaires’ Republic.” Nation 305, no. 3 (2017): 27–31.
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Purdy, J. “Citizen Activism and the Courts.” American Prospect 28, no. 2 (2017): 1–8.
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Purdy, J., and D. Grewal. “Inequality Rediscovered.” Theoretical Inquiries in Law 18 (2017): 61–82.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “Coming into the Anthropocene.” Harvard Law Review 129 (2016): 1619–50.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “This Land is Our Land.” Democracy Winter 2016 No. 39 (2016).
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Purdy, J. “What is the Constitution For?” New Republic, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “'Blood and Earth,' by Kevin Bales.” New York Times, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “A Wild Way to Save the Planet.” New Republic, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “The Violent Remaking of Appalachia.” Atlantic, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “Votes of No Confidence.” Bookforum, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “Red-State Blues,” 2016.
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Purdy, J. “The Art of the Possible: Peter Frase's "Four Futures".” La Review of Books, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “License to Kill.” Artforum International 54, no. 8 (2016): 22–23.
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Purdy, J. “Overcoming the Great Forgetting: A Comment on Fishkin and Forbath.” Texas Law Review 94, no. 7 (2016): 1415–26.
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Purdy, J. “The Two Populisms.” Nation 303, no. 18 (2016): 27–32.
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Purdy, J. “What Real Difference Does the Gross Domestic Product Make?” Cultural Dynamics 28, no. 2 (2016): 235–37.
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Purdy, J. “Wild Again: A Drastic Plan to Save the World from Ecological Ruin.” The New Republic 247, no. 4 (2016): 77–79.
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Purdy, Jedediah, Elizabeth Anderson, Samuel Moyn, Richard Yeselson, Elizabeth Bruenig, Lane Kenworthy, Joss Garman, Alan Finlayson, Julia Azari, and Timothy Shenk. “Obama’s Legacy and Beyond.” Juncture 23, no. 3 (2016): 149–73.
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Purdy, J. “Neoliberal Constitutionalism: Lochnerism for a New Economy.” Law & Contemporary Problems 77, no. 4 (2015): 195–213.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “That We are Underlings: The Real Problems in Disciplining Political Spending and the First Amendment.” Constitutional Commentary 30 (2015): 391–402.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “Maybe Connect.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “The Mushroom that Explains the World.” New Republic, 2015.
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Purdy, J., and D. Grewal. “Introduction: Law and Neoliberalism.” Law & Contemporary Problems 77 (2015): 1–23.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “Black-Robed Reactionaries: Has the Supreme Court Been Bad for the American Republic?” Bookforum Sept/Oct/Nov (2014).
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Purdy, J. “To Have and Have Not.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “Some Pluralism About Pluralism: A Comment on Hanoch Dagan's "Pluralism and Perfectionism in Private Law".” Columbia Law Review Sidebar 113 (2013): 9–19.Link to Item
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“Our Place in the World: A New Relationship for Environmental Ethics and Law.” Duke Law Journal 62 (2013): 857–932.Link to Item
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Siegel, N., and J. Purdy. “The Liberty of Free Riders: The Minimum Coverage Provision, Mill's 'Harm Principle,' and American Social Morality.” American Journal of Law & Medicine 38 (2012): 374–96.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “American Natures: The Shape of Conflict in Environmental Law.” Harvard Environmental Law Review 36 (2012): 169–228.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “A Foxy Hedgehog: The Consistent Perception of Carol Rose.” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 19 (2011): 1033–37.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “The Politics of Nature: Climate Change, Environmental Law, and Democracy.” Yale Law Journal 119 (2010): 1122–1209.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “What Has to Change for Forests to Be Saved? A Historical Example From the United States.” Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 19 (2009): 467–86.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “A Few Questions About the Social-Obligation Norm.” Cornell Law Review 94 (2009): 949–58.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “Presidential Popular Constitutionalism.” Fordham Law Review 77 (2009): 1837–71.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “Climate Change and the Limits of the Possible.” Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 18 (2008): 289–306.Link to Item
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Purdy, J., and J. Salzman. “Corn Futures: Consumer Politics, Health, and Climate Change.” Environmental Law Reporter 38 (2008): 10851.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “The New Biopolitics: Autonomy, Demography and Nationhood.” Brigham Young University Law Review 2006 (2007): 889–955.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “People as Resources: Recruitment and Reciprocity in the Freedom-Promoting Approach to Property.” Duke Law Journal 56 (2007): 1047–1117.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “Property and Empire: The Law of Imperialism in Johnson v. M'Intosh.” George Washington Law Review 75 (2007): 329–71.Link to Item
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Purdy, J., and K. Fielding. “Sovereigns, Trustees, Guardians: Private-Law Concepts and the Limits of Legitimate State Power.” Law & Contemporary Problems 70 (2007): 165–211.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “History, Human Nature, and Property Regimes: Filling in the Civilizing Argument.” Saint Louis University Law Journal 50 (2006): 735–50.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “The Promise (and Limits) of Neuroeconomics.” Alabama Law Review 58 (2006): 1–40.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “The New Biopolitics.” Democracy, 2006, 6–18.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “The New Biopolitics: Autonomy, Demography, and Nationhood.” Brigham Young University Law Review 2006 (2006): 889–955.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “The American Transformation of Waste Doctrine: A Pluralist Interpretation.” Cornell Law Review 91 (2006): 653–98.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “The Limits of Courage and Principle.” Michigan Law Review 104 (2006): 1501–21.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “A Freedom-Promoting Approach to Property: A Renewed Tradition for New Debates.” University of Chicago Law Review 72 (2005): 1237–98.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “The Ethics of Empire, Again (Review Essay).” California Law Review 93 (2005): 1773–1817.Link to Item
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Purdy, Jedediah. “Book Reviews.” Ethics & International Affairs 19, no. 2 (2005): 115–17.
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Purdy, J. “A World of Passions: How to Think About Globalization Now.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 11 (2004): 1–49.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “Liberal Empire: Assessing the Arguments.” Ethics and International Affairs 17 (2003): 2003.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “The Values of the Market.” New America Foundation: Ethics and International Affairs 16, no. Fall (2002).
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Purdy, J. “So Sue Me.” New York Times Book Review, 2001, 20.
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Book Sections
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Purdy, J. “All-Too Human: Orienting Environmental Law in a Remade World.” In Nature and Value, 127–62. Columbia University Press, 2019.
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Purdy, J. “Wealth and Democracy.” In Wealth (NOMOS LVIII), 235–60. New York University Press, 2017.Link to Item
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Purdy, Jedediah. “Environmentalism for the Next Economy.” In Law and Policy for a New Economy: Sustainable, Just, and Democratic, 50–69. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.
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Purdy, J. “Property in the United States Constitution.” In The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution, 501–20, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “Property and the Constitution (Accepted).” In Oxford Handbook of US Constitutional Law, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “Socialism Coincides with American Values.” In American Values, 73–81, 2014.
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Miller, J. “Nature.” edited by Randall L. Nadeau, 349–68, 2012.
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Purdy, J. S. “An American sacrifice zone.” In Mountains of Injustice: Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia, 181–84, 2011.
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Purdy, Jedediah. “Afterword: An American Sacrifice Zone.” In Mountains of Injustice: Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia, 181–84. Ohio University Press, 2011.
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Purdy, J. “Language of Politics in America.” In Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force, 2009.
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Purdy, J. “The New Liberal Imperialism: Assessing the Arguments.” In Global Institutions and Responsibilities, 323–38, 2005.
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Purdy, Jedediah. “Introduction.” In Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Life of American Democracy, 1–15. Yale University Press, 2004.
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Other Articles
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Purdy, Jedediah. “The Courts Should Be More Political, Not Less.” New York Times, 2023.
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Purdy, J. “The Republican Party Is Succeeding Because We Are Not a True Democracy.” New York Times, 2022.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “Democrats Need Patriotism Now More Than Ever.” New York Times, 2022.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “Democrats Need Patriotism Now More Than Ever.” New York Times, 2022.
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Purdy, J. “We Can Be Framers Too.” The Atlantic, 2022.
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Purdy, J. “The Constitutional Flaw That’s Killing American Democracy.” The Atlantic, 2022.
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Purdy, Jedediah. “Humans Have Rapidly Remade the Earth and Imperiled Its Future.” Washington Post, 2021.
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Purdy, Jedediah. “Infinite Frontier: The Eternal Return of American Expansionism.” Nation, 2019.
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Purdy, Jedediah. “A Shared Place: Wendell Berry’s Lifelong Dissent.” Nation, 2019.
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Purdy, Jedediah. “Free Time.” New Republic, 2019.
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Purdy, J. “Environmental Trumpism at Bears Ears.” Law and Political Economy, 2018.
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Purdy, J. “Trump’s Nativism Is Transforming the Physical Landscape.” The Atlantic, 2018.
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Purdy, J. “The New Socialism Is More American Than You Think (And Also More Radical).” Politico Magazine, 2018.
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Purdy, J. “The Left’s Guide to Reclaiming the Constitution.” New York Times, 2018.
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Purdy, J. “The Bosses’ Constitution: How and Why the First Amendment Became a Weapon for the Right.” Nation, 2018.
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Purdy, J. “The Unequal Distribution of Catastrophe in North Carolina.” The New Yorker, 2018.
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Purdy, J. “No Law Without Politics (No Politics Without Law).” Law and Political Economy, 2018.
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Purdy, Jedediah. “Normcore.” Dissent, 2018.
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Purdy, J. “Redefining Solidarity.” Dissent, 2017.
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Purdy, J. “How to Lose a Country: Henry David Thoreau, the Politics of Nature and the Citizenship of Fear.” Abc Religion & Ethics, 2017.
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Purdy, J. “America's New Opposition.” New Republic, 2017.
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Purdy, J. “North Carolina's Long Moral March and Its Lessons for the Trump Resistance.” New Yorker, 2017.
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Purdy, J. “The Fight Ahead.” Dissent, 2017.
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Purdy, J., M. Walzer, and A. Abrahamian. “A People's Globalism: Notes Toward a New Left Internationalism.” Nation, 2017.
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Purdy, Jedediah. “Thoreau: A Radical for All Seasons.” Nation, 2017.
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Purdy, J. “The Bundys and the Irony of American Vigilantism.” The New Yorker, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “Bernie is Not the New Barry -- And That's a Good Thing.” Huffington Post, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “Ammon Bundy Stands Down.” New Yorker, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “Against the Political Grown-Up.” Dissent, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “Scalia's Contradictory Originalism.” New Yorker, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “How the 2016 Election Undermines Fukuyama's "End of History" Argument.” Vox, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “Transgender Rights and the End of the New South.” New Yorker, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “What West Virginia is Saying at the Polls.” Scalawag, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “On Memorial Day, Weaponizing the American Flag.” Scalawag, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “America's Rejection of the Politics of Barack Obama.” Atlantic, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “A Voting-Rights Victory in North Carolina.” New Yorker, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “North Carolina Republications vs. N.C.A.A. Basketball.” New Yorker, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “Populism's Two Paths.” Nation, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “4 Reasons Sanders Can Win the General.” Huffington Post, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “How to Fight Trump.” Huffington Post, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “Dismissing Sanders: Democratic Condescension and the Mythic Political Grown-up.” Huffington Post, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “Jim Webb, Donald Trump, and the Tragedy of American Whiteness.” Huffington Post, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “Donald Trump's Brutal Charm.” Huffington Post, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “Sanders and the Theory of Change: Radical Politics for Grown-Ups.” Huffington Post, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “Palin's Song: Her Speech Endorsing Trump, Compressed into Short Poems.” Huffington Post, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “Sandra Bland, Citizen.” Huffington Post, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “The Pope and I (Are Having a Complicated Weekend).” Huffington Post, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “Environmentalism was Once a Social-Justice Movement.” Atlantic, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “The Anti-Trump Left Is Now the Only Hope for Moderates.” The New Republic, 2016.
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Purdy, J., J. Guldi, R. Paarlberg, D. Keith, U. Mattei, P. Waldau, J. Grove, et al. “The New Nature.” Boston Review, 2016.
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Purdy, J. “The Triumph of Corruption.” Dissent, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “Socialism or Barbarism? Syriza, Economics, and Democracy.” Huffington Post, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “The Long Game of the Moral March.” New Yorker, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “Ayn Rand Comes to U.N.C.” The New Yorker, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “Imagining the Anthropocene.” Aeon, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “Thoughts from Chapel Hill: Violence as a Way of Life,” 2015.
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Purdy, J. “The Dangers of Clarity: Don't Let Terrorism Define Us.” Huffington Post, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “I Understand Nothing.” Huffington Post, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “The G.O.P. Opts Out of Equality.” New Yorker, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “Tenure, Fairness, and Fear(lessness).” Huffington Post, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “Environmentalism's Racist History.” New Yorker, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “Foodies Can Succeed Where Environmentalists Failed.” Bloomberg View, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “Climate Apocalypse and/or Democracy.” Huffington Post, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “Bernie Sanders's New Deal Socialism.” The New Yorker, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “Trump's Monstrous Call.” Huffington Post, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “We are the Climate Change Complacency We Seek.” Foreign Policy, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “An Environmentalism for the Left.” Dissent, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “The TPP is a Test of Democracy.” Huffington Post, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “Fragments, Shored.” Avidly, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “Eternal Childhood of the Spotless Mind: Speech Codes in the Neoliberal University.” Huffington Post, 2015.
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Purdy, J. “The Accidental Neoliberal.” N+1, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “Time Bomb.” Politico Magazine, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “Killing It.” Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “When Diversity Fails the Poor.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “Why Some are More Equal Than Others.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “On Obama, Occupy, and Moral Monday.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “God Save Us From This Court.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “How to Fix Inequality After Piketty.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “Why Pollution is a Violent Crime.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “Time for Greens to Get Radical.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “We Need More Class Traitors.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “How 'Thrones' Explains DC Politics.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “What We Need to Fix Climate Change.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “Democracy Under Threat for 250 Years.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “Teenage Riot A Sentimental Education.” N+1, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “The Hunger Games Economy.” The Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “A Reminder: Our Justices are Politicians in Robes.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “Undo Citizen's United? We'd Only Scratch the Surface.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “Why Your Waiter Hates You.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “No One's Job: West Virginia's Forbidden Waters.” New Yorker, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “The Media's Pro-Torture Cheerleaders.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “Thanksgiving #Ferguson.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “It's Legal to Buy Votes in America.” Daily Beast, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “7 Most Truthy NYT Columnists.” Avidly, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “17 Endangered Species that are Also Bands.” Avidly, 2014.
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Purdy, J. “A Terrible Beauty.” Avidly, 2013.
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Purdy, J. “Open the Slaughterhouses.” New York Times, 2013.
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Purdy, J. “How the Ag-Gag Bill Would Make Criminals Out of Do-Gooders.” Newsobserver.Com, 2013.
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Purdy, J. “How to be American Here in the Future.” Huffington Post, 2012.
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Purdy, J. “Whiteness in the Age of Obama.” Huffington Post, 2012.
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Purdy, J. “Intellectual Climate Change.” The Guardian, 2007.
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Purdy, J. “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, 2006.
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Purdy, J. “Democracy and Disaster.” Die Zeit, 2005.
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Purdy, J. “A Way in the World.” Duke Law Magazine, 2005.
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Purdy, J. “Neoliberalism Comes to Domestic Policy.” La Vanguardia, 2005.
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Purdy, J. “Where Do Progressives Go Now?” The Principles Project, 2005.
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Purdy, J. “Democrats After the Election.” Die Welt, 2004.
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Purdy, J. “Voting for John Kerry Guarantees Saving the American Dream.” Charleston, 2004.
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Purdy, J. “Democratic Conscience, Democratic Sense.” La Vanguardia, 2004.
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Purdy, J. “Kerrys Dilemma.” La Vanguardia, 2004.
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Purdy, J. “Questions for President Bush (contributor).” New York Times, 2004.
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Purdy, J. “A Vote for Kerry Is a Vote for the American Dream.” Charleston Gazette, 2004.
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Purdy, J. “American Eating, American Politics.” Die Zeit, 2004.
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Purdy, J. “Freedom's Next Fight.” American Prospect, 2004.
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Purdy, J. “Suspicious Minds.” The Atlantic Monthly, 2003.
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Purdy, J. “The Young American.” Esquire, 2002.
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Purdy, J. “Civilization of Violence?” Die Zeit, 2002.
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Purdy, J. “The Pure Heart.” Die Zeit, 2002.
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Purdy, J. “The Way We Say Goodnight.” Shout, 2001.
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Purdy, J. “After Innocence.” Die Zeit, 2001.
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Purdy, J. “The Universal Nation.” Prospect, 2001.
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Purdy, J. “Gary Condit's Strong, Silent Act.” New York Times, 2001.
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Purdy, J. “Us and Them.” Die Zeit, 2001.
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Purdy, J. “Once Again, America Needs to Believe in Its Courts.” New York Times, 2000.
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Purdy, J. “America's Crisis of Legitimacy.” Die Zeit, 2000.Link to Item
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Purdy, J. “How to Go to the Polls Twice.” New York Times, 2000.
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Purdy, J. “Planet Bush, Planet Gore.” American Prospect, 2000.
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Purdy, J. “The Dilemma of Irony.” Die Zeit, 2000.
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Purdy, J. “The Politics of Adulthood.” New York Times, 2000.
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Purdy, J. “Shades of Green.” American Prospect, 2000.
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Purdy, J. “After Apathy.” American Prospect, 1999.
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Purdy, J. “The New Culture of Rural America.” American Prospect, 1999.
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Purdy, J. “A Holiday that Plays to Our Strengths.” New York Times, 1999.
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Purdy, J. “If Wishing Only Made It So.” American Prospect, 1999.
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Purdy, J. “From Purity to Politics.” American Prospect, 1999.
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Purdy, J. “Rape of the Appalachians.” American Prospect, 1998.
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Purdy, J. “The Age of Irony.” American Prospect, 1998.
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Purdy, J. “Wendell Berry: An Appreciation.” Boston Book Review, 1998.
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Purdy, J. “Dolly and Madison.” American Prospect, 1998.
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Purdy, J. “The God of the Digerati.” American Prospect, 1998.
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Purdy, J. “The Chicago Acid Bath.” American Prospect, 1998.
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Purdy, J. “The Libertarian Conceit.” American Prospect, 1997.
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