Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment.
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The Shame of America
January 12, 2012
The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
by Randall Kennedy
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
by David Margolick
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The Most Skillful Liberal
April 7, 2011
Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion
by Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel
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How the Supreme Court Should and Should Not Work
November 11, 2010
Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View
by Stephen Breyer
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A Supreme Difference
June 10, 2010
American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
by Joan Biskupic
John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life
by Bill Barnhart and Gene Schlickman
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A Hero of American Justice
February 11, 2010
Louis D. Brandeis: A Life
by Melvin I. Urofsky
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Google & the Future of Books: An Exchange
January 14, 2010
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Go Directly to Jail
October 22, 2009
Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court
by Amy Bach
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‘Life Without Lawyers’
August 13, 2009
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Conor Cruise O’Brien & Dr. Johnson
August 13, 2009
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Justice Holmes and the ‘Splendid Prisoner’
July 2, 2009
Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent
by Ernest Freeberg
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‘Life Without Lawyers’: An Exchange
May 14, 2009
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Shall We Get Rid of the Lawyers?
April 9, 2009
Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law
by Philip K. Howard
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‘Official American Sadism’
November 6, 2008
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Official American Sadism
September 25, 2008
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 byMajor General Antonio M. Taguba
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The Terror President
May 1, 2008
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The Court: How ‘So Few Have So Quickly Changed So Much’
December 20, 2007
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
by Jeffrey Toobin
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Demagogue Without a Cause
June 8, 2006
Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy
by Tom Wicker
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Woman in the Middle
April 6, 2006
Sandra Day O’Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
by Joan Biskupic
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Privilege & the Press
July 14, 2005
Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment
by Floyd Abrams
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More Than Fit to Print
April 7, 2005
Inside the Pentagon Papers
edited by John Prados and Margaret Pratt Porter
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The Election and America’s Future
November 4, 2004
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Making Torture Legal
July 15, 2004
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Bush and the Lesser Evil
May 27, 2004
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
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Un-American Activities
October 23, 2003
Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism
by David Cole
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On the West Wing
February 13, 2003
Bush at War
by Bob Woodward
The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush
by David Frum
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A Phantom Triumph?
December 5, 2002
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Bush and Iraq
November 7, 2002
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Is There a Solution?
April 25, 2002
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‘A Vast Conspiracy’
October 19, 2000
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Nearly a Coup
April 13, 2000
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
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The Case of Lani Guinier
August 13, 1998
Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice
by Lani Guinier
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Murder in Turkey
May 13, 1993
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The Intimidated Press
January 19, 1989
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You Can’t Go Home Again
September 29, 1983
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The Mysteries of Mr. Lippmann
October 9, 1980
Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel
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The Evidence of ‘The Brethren’: An Exchange
June 12, 1980
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Supreme Court Confidential
February 7, 1980
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward, by Scott Armstrong
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A Matter of Character
October 27, 1977
Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy by Roger Morris
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Torture in Hanoi
March 7, 1974
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
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Walt’s Faults
February 8, 1973
The Diffusion of Power: An Essay in Recent History by W.W. Rostow
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An Unfettered Mind: Justice Stevens
April 13, 2010
In the celebration of Justice John Paul Stevens as he brings his long career on the Supreme Court to an end, it is worth remembering what might seem to be an untypical moment in that career: the flag-burning case of 1989.