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Jedediah Purdy

Jedediah Purdy

Raphael Lemkin Distinguished Professor of Law
School of Law
purdy@law.duke.edu
Duke Law School Room 4178, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications

Walden

Book · 2023 Link to item Cite

The Possible Futures of American Democracy

Journal Article Utah Law Review · 2023 Link to item Cite

The Promise of American Life

Journal Article The New Republic · 2022 Cite

We Can Be Framers Too

Other The Atlantic · 2022 Cite

Who Are the People?

Journal Article Dissent · 2022 Link to item Cite

A Possible Majority

Journal Article Dissent · 2021 Link to item Cite

After Carbon Democracy

Journal Article Dissent · 2020 Link to item Cite

We Need an Insurgent Mass Movement

Journal Article Dissent · 2020 Link to item Cite

Deep Problems

Journal Article Dissent · 2020 Link to item Cite

Walden

Book · 2023 Link to item Cite

The Possible Futures of American Democracy

Journal Article Utah Law Review · 2023 Link to item Cite

The Promise of American Life

Journal Article The New Republic · 2022 Cite

We Can Be Framers Too

Other The Atlantic · 2022 Cite

Who Are the People?

Journal Article Dissent · 2022 Link to item Cite

A Possible Majority

Journal Article Dissent · 2021 Link to item Cite

After Carbon Democracy

Journal Article Dissent · 2020 Link to item Cite

We Need an Insurgent Mass Movement

Journal Article Dissent · 2020 Link to item Cite

Deep Problems

Journal Article Dissent · 2020 Link to item Cite

Solidarity and Crisis

Journal Article Dissent · 2020 Link to item Cite

Just in Theory

Journal Article The New Republic · 2019 Cite

Free Time

Other New Republic · 2019 Cite

The Long Environmental Justice Movement

Journal Article Ecology Law Quarterly · 2018 Link to item Cite

Environmental Trumpism at Bears Ears

Other Law and Political Economy · 2018 Cite

No Law Without Politics (No Politics Without Law)

Other Law and Political Economy · 2018 Cite

Normcore

Journal Article Dissent · 2018 Link to item Cite

Normcore

Other Dissent · 2018 Cite

Redefining Solidarity

Other Dissent · 2017 Cite

America's New Opposition

Other New Republic · 2017 Cite

Inequality Rediscovered

Journal Article Theoretical Inquiries in Law · 2017 Link to item Cite

The Original Theory of Constitutionalism

Journal Article Yale Law Journal · 2017 Link to item Cite

Paleo Politics

Journal Article · 2017 Cite

A Billionaires’ Republic

Journal Article Nation · 2017 Cite

Citizen Activism and the Courts

Journal Article American Prospect · 2017 Cite

The Fight Ahead

Other Dissent · 2017 Cite

Coming into the Anthropocene

Journal Article Harvard Law Review · 2016 Link to item Cite

This Land is Our Land

Journal Article Democracy · 2016 Cite

The New Nature

Other Boston Review · 2016 Cite

What is the Constitution For?

Journal Article New Republic · 2016 Cite

'Blood and Earth,' by Kevin Bales

Journal Article New York Times · 2016 Cite

Ammon Bundy Stands Down

Other New Yorker · 2016 Cite

Against the Political Grown-Up

Other Dissent · 2016 Cite

Scalia's Contradictory Originalism

Other New Yorker · 2016 Cite

A Wild Way to Save the Planet

Journal Article New Republic · 2016 Cite

The Violent Remaking of Appalachia

Journal Article Atlantic · 2016 Cite

Votes of No Confidence

Journal Article BookForum · 2016 Cite

Red-State Blues

Journal Article · 2016 Cite

The Art of the Possible: Peter Frase's "Four Futures"

Journal Article LA Review of Books · 2016 Cite

Populism's Two Paths

Other Nation · 2016 Cite

License to Kill

Journal Article Artforum International · 2016 Cite

4 Reasons Sanders Can Win the General

Other Huffington Post · 2016 Cite

How to Fight Trump

Other Huffington Post · 2016 Cite

Donald Trump's Brutal Charm

Other Huffington Post · 2016 Cite

Sandra Bland, Citizen

Other Huffington Post · 2016 Cite

The Two Populisms

Journal Article Nation · 2016 Cite

What Real Difference Does the Gross Domestic Product Make?

Journal Article Cultural Dynamics · 2016 Cite

Obama’s Legacy and Beyond

Journal Article Juncture · 2016 Cite

Introduction: Law and Neoliberalism

Journal Article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2015 Link to item Cite

Neoliberal Constitutionalism: Lochnerism for a New Economy

Journal Article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2015 Link to item Cite

The Triumph of Corruption

Other Dissent · 2015 Cite

The Long Game of the Moral March

Other New Yorker · 2015 Cite

Ayn Rand Comes to U.N.C.

Other The New Yorker · 2015 Cite

Imagining the Anthropocene

Other aeon · 2015 Cite

I Understand Nothing

Other Huffington Post · 2015 Cite

The G.O.P. Opts Out of Equality

Other New Yorker · 2015 Cite

Tenure, Fairness, and Fear(lessness)

Other Huffington Post · 2015 Cite

Environmentalism's Racist History

Other New Yorker · 2015 Cite

Maybe Connect

Journal Article Los Angeles Review of Books · 2015 Cite

Climate Apocalypse and/or Democracy

Other Huffington Post · 2015 Cite

The Mushroom that Explains the World

Journal Article New Republic · 2015 Cite

Bernie Sanders's New Deal Socialism

Other The New Yorker · 2015 Cite

Trump's Monstrous Call

Other Huffington Post · 2015 Cite

The TPP is a Test of Democracy

Other Huffington Post · 2015 Cite

Fragments, Shored

Other Avidly · 2015 Cite

The Accidental Neoliberal

Other N+1 · 2014 Cite

Time Bomb

Other Politico Magazine · 2014 Cite

To Have and Have Not

Journal Article Los Angeles Review of Books · 2014 Cite

Killing It

Other Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal · 2014 Cite

When Diversity Fails the Poor

Other Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

Why Some are More Equal Than Others

Other Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

On Obama, Occupy, and Moral Monday

Other Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

God Save Us From This Court

Other Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

How to Fix Inequality After Piketty

Other Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

Why Pollution is a Violent Crime

Other Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

Time for Greens to Get Radical

Other Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

We Need More Class Traitors

Other Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

How 'Thrones' Explains DC Politics

Other Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

What We Need to Fix Climate Change

Other Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

Democracy Under Threat for 250 Years

Other Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

The Hunger Games Economy

Other The Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

Why Your Waiter Hates You

Other Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

The Media's Pro-Torture Cheerleaders

Other Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

Thanksgiving #Ferguson

Other Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

It's Legal to Buy Votes in America

Other Daily Beast · 2014 Cite

7 Most Truthy NYT Columnists

Other Avidly · 2014 Cite

A Terrible Beauty

Other Avidly · 2013 Cite

Open the Slaughterhouses

Other New York Times · 2013 Cite

How to be American Here in the Future

Other Huffington Post · 2012 Cite

Whiteness in the Age of Obama

Other Huffington Post · 2012 Cite

Nature

Chapter · 2012 Cite

American Natures: The Shape of Conflict in Environmental Law

Journal Article Harvard Environmental Law Review · 2012 Link to item Cite

An American sacrifice zone

Chapter · December 1, 2011 Cite

A Foxy Hedgehog: The Consistent Perception of Carol Rose

Journal Article William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2011 Link to item Cite

What Has to Change for Forests to Be Saved? A Historical Example From the United States

Journal Article Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law · 2009 Link to item Cite

A Few Questions About the Social-Obligation Norm

Journal Article Cornell Law Review · 2009 Link to item Cite

Presidential Popular Constitutionalism

Journal Article Fordham Law Review · 2009 Link to item Cite

Corn Futures: Consumer Politics, Health, and Climate Change

Journal Article Environmental Law Reporter · 2008 Link to item Cite

Climate Change and the Limits of the Possible

Journal Article Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum · 2008 Link to item Cite

The New Biopolitics: Autonomy, Demography and Nationhood

Journal Article Brigham Young University Law Review · 2007 Link to item Cite

Intellectual Climate Change

Other The Guardian · 2007 Cite

Property and Empire: The Law of Imperialism in Johnson v. M'Intosh

Journal Article George Washington Law Review · 2007 Link to item Cite

The Promise (and Limits) of Neuroeconomics

Journal Article Alabama Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

The New Biopolitics

Journal Article Democracy · 2006 Link to item Cite

The New Biopolitics: Autonomy, Demography, and Nationhood

Journal Article Brigham Young University Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

The Limits of Courage and Principle

Journal Article Michigan Law Review · 2006 Link to item Cite

Democracy and Disaster

Other Die Zeit · 2005 Cite

A Way in the World

Other Duke Law Magazine · 2005 Cite

Neoliberalism Comes to Domestic Policy

Other La Vanguardia · 2005 Cite

Where Do Progressives Go Now?

Other The Principles Project · 2005 Cite

Book Reviews

Journal Article Ethics & International Affairs · 2005 Cite

The Ethics of Empire, Again (Review Essay)

Journal Article California Law Review · 2005 Link to item Cite

A World of Passions: How to Think About Globalization Now

Journal Article Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies · 2004 Link to item Cite

Democrats After the Election

Other Die Welt · 2004 Cite

Democratic Conscience, Democratic Sense

Other La Vanguardia · 2004 Cite

Kerrys Dilemma

Other La Vanguardia · 2004 Cite

Freedom's Next Fight

Other American Prospect · 2004 Cite

Introduction

Chapter · 2004 Cite

Suspicious Minds

Other The Atlantic Monthly · 2003 Cite

Liberal Empire: Assessing the Arguments

Journal Article Ethics and International Affairs · 2003 Link to item Cite

The Values of the Market

Journal Article New America Foundation: Ethics and International Affairs · 2002 Cite

The Young American

Other Esquire · 2002 Cite

Civilization of Violence?

Other Die Zeit · 2002 Cite

The Pure Heart

Other Die Zeit · 2002 Cite

So Sue Me

Journal Article New York Times Book Review · 2001 Cite

The Way We Say Goodnight

Other Shout · 2001 Cite

After Innocence

Other Die Zeit · 2001 Cite

The Universal Nation

Other Prospect · 2001 Cite

Gary Condit's Strong, Silent Act

Other New York Times · 2001 Cite

Us and Them

Other Die Zeit · 2001 Cite

How to Go to the Polls Twice

Other New York Times · 2000 Cite

Planet Bush, Planet Gore

Other American Prospect · 2000 Cite

The Dilemma of Irony

Other Die Zeit · 2000 Cite

The Politics of Adulthood

Other New York Times · 2000 Cite

Shades of Green

Other American Prospect · 2000 Cite

After Apathy

Other American Prospect · 1999 Cite

The New Culture of Rural America

Other American Prospect · 1999 Cite

A Holiday that Plays to Our Strengths

Other New York Times · 1999 Cite

If Wishing Only Made It So

Other American Prospect · 1999 Cite

From Purity to Politics

Other American Prospect · 1999 Cite

Rape of the Appalachians

Other American Prospect · 1998 Cite

The Age of Irony

Other American Prospect · 1998 Cite

Wendell Berry: An Appreciation

Other Boston Book Review · 1998 Cite

Dolly and Madison

Other American Prospect · 1998 Cite

The God of the Digerati

Other American Prospect · 1998 Cite

The Chicago Acid Bath

Other American Prospect · 1998 Cite

The Libertarian Conceit

Other American Prospect · 1997 Cite