The 2024 election results call into question the robustness and longevity of US democracy and the rule of law. On the one hand, the present moment echoes US history, namely the Reconstruction counterrevolution. On the other hand, the Trumpification of the GOP is incomparable in US history. To help assess the perils and possibilities of the moment is the nation’s leading columnist who has consistently provided clear eyed, trenchant, and historically informed insights into US politics.
Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for the New York Times. He covers US history, politics, and constitutional history. Before the Times, Jamelle was chief political correspondent for Slate magazine. He has also contributed essays to volumes such as "Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019" and "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story." In 2021, he received the Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism and in 2024 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Presented by the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, the Daniel M. Lyons Chair in History, the Frederic Ewen Lecture on Academic Freedom and Civil Liberties, and the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College.
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“The Supreme Court is Playing a Dangerous Game”, March 22, 2024 (Also available through Library)
“Trump’s Trail of Fears”, February 11, 2019 (Also available through Library)
“The US Thinks ‘It Can’t Happen Here.’ It Already Has.” October 18, 2022 (Also available through Library)
“What the Contradictions of Slavery Tells Us About Abortion Rights”, September 2, 2023 (Also available through Library)
“When Politicians Invoke the Founding Fathers, Remember This”, April 12, 2024 (Also available through Library)
“One Senator’s Vision of Supreme Court Accountability”, September 28, 2024
“Down About the Election? There’s a Speech I Want You To Read.”, November 23, 2024 (Also available through Library)
“Now is Not the Time for Surrender”, December 18, 2024 (Also available through Library)