- Another interview of Tracy Thomas about her The First Woman Judge: The Life and Legacy of Florence Allen, this time in Above the Law.
- The Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission is honoring Anne M. Burke with its The Honorable George N. Leighton Justice Award. Justice Burke, "Born and raised on Chicago’s South Side," she served as a justice on the Supreme Court of Illinois from 2006 to 2022, including a three-year term as the court’s Chief Justice (ISBA Bar News).
- Two-Wheel Bureaucracy: How America Once Governed Bicycles in New York Almanack, which can profitably be read with the law review note of one of my students: Gregory Lisa, "Bicyclists and Bureaucrats: The League of American Wheelmen and Public Choice Theory Applied," Georgetown Law Journal 84 (December 1995).
- In How America Became Antifascist, Beverly Gage reviews William I. Hitchcock’s A Shadow Over the World: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Rise of Fascism, and the Making of America’s World War II (Simon & Schuster) in the New Yorker.
- Legal historians of American political institutions would benefit from reading Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way's application of their model of "competitive authoritarianism" to the second Trump administration in the latest issue of the Journal of Democracy (37:4), and not simply because of its historical claims, including its discussion of the Nixon administration, "the closest comparison" to the present since the United States first met the "standard procedural minimum criteria for democracy" after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Unfortunately, Levitsky and Way's article pairs well with Eyal Press's "Should I Stay or Should I Go? Dissenters at the DOJ face a moral quandary," in the New Yorker, October 5, 2026.
--Dan Ernst
