According to the Native American Environmental Protection Coalition (NAEPC), there are thirty Indigenous communities straddling the international boundary that divides the United Mexican States (Mexico) and the United States of America (USA). Most of these are on the US side, organized into reservations, which are self-governing under federal law. On the Mexican side, Indigenous communities […]
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Guido Parietti is Asst. Prof. of Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy at James Madison College within Michigan State University. He joins the Political Theory Review Podcast to discuss his new Oxford University Press book, On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, Politics. Listen to take a closer look at the definitions of power and why, Parietti […]
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In the spring semester of 1856, a 25-year-old student at Harvard Law named James Bradley Thayer submitted an entry into the school’s annual essay competition. Undoubtedly, he had the cash prize in mind. After all, Thayer did not descend from Boston’s patrician class that dominated Harvard; he had to fund his own education, given his […]
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