Anthony Lewis

Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published last year.

From the Review

July 2, 2009: Justice Holmes and the 'Splendid Prisoner'

Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent by Ernest Freeberg

May 14, 2009: 'Life Without Lawyers': An Exchange

April 9, 2009: Shall We Get Rid of the Lawyers?

Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law by Philip K. Howard

November 6, 2008: 'Official American Sadism' (letter)

September 25, 2008: Official American Sadism

Guantanamo: Beyond the Law a series of five articles by Tom Lasseter

The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power by Jonathan Mahler

Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact a report by Physicians for Human Rights, with a preface by Major General Antonio M. Taguba

May 1, 2008: The Terror President

December 20, 2007: The Court: How 'So Few Have So Quickly Changed So Much'

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

June 8, 2006: Demagogue Without a Cause

Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy by Tom Wicker

April 6, 2006: Woman in the Middle

Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice by Joan Biskupic

July 14, 2005: Privilege & the Press

Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment by Floyd Abrams

April 7, 2005: More Than Fit to Print

Inside the Pentagon Papers edited by John Prados and Margaret Pratt Porter

November 4, 2004: The Election and America's Future

July 15, 2004: Making Torture Legal

May 27, 2004: Bush and the Lesser Evil

The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff

The Year of Living Dangerously: A Liberal Supporter of the War Looks Back an article by Michael Ignatieff

October 23, 2003: Un-American Activities

Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism by David Cole

February 13, 2003: On the West Wing

Bush at War by Bob Woodward

The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush by David Frum

December 5, 2002: A Phantom Triumph? (letter)

November 7, 2002: Bush and Iraq

April 25, 2002: Is There a Solution?

October 19, 2000: 'A Vast Conspiracy' (letter)

April 13, 2000: Nearly a Coup

A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President by Jeffrey Toobin

The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton by Joe Conason, by Gene Lyons

August 13, 1998: The Case of Lani Guinier

Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice by Lani Guinier

May 13, 1993: Murder in Turkey (letter)

January 19, 1989: The Intimidated Press

September 29, 1983: You Can't Go Home Again

October 9, 1980: The Mysteries of Mr. Lippmann

Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel

June 12, 1980: The Evidence of 'The Brethren': An Exchange

February 7, 1980: Supreme Court Confidential

The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward, by Scott Armstrong

October 27, 1977: A Matter of Character

Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy by Roger Morris

March 7, 1974: Torture in Hanoi

They Wouldn't Let Us Die: The Prisoners of War Tell Their Story by Stephen A. Rowan

The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese by Colonel Robinson Risner

February 8, 1973: Walt's Faults

The Diffusion of Power: An Essay in Recent History by W.W. Rostow

From New York Review Books

Glory and Terror Steven Weinberg, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, writes that America today "has an unprecedented opportunity to begin to escape from the risk of nuclear annihilation." But, he warns, President Bush is not only letting this opportunity slip away, he is, in some respects, moving in the wrong direction.

Books by Anthony Lewis

Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (1991)
Gideon's Trumpet (1989)
Clarence Earl Gideon and the Supreme Court (1972)