- At the New York Times, Noam Schieber reviews Robert G. Kaiser's Act of Congress (Alfred A Knopf).
- The Washington Post reviews a John Hay biography, All the Great Prizes (Simon and Schuster) and Pagan's The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters (Random House) here.
- On NPR Mark Kurlansky's Ready for a Brand New Beat (Penguin), about the song "Dancing in the Street" and the Civil Rights Movement, is reviewed.
- The New York Review of Books asks "Should We Discard the Constitution?" and reviews Louis Michael Seidman's On Constitutional Disobedience (Oxford University Press).