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<title><![CDATA[Jedediah Purdy - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/25737.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jedediah Purdy]]></description><category domain="25737">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[A Progressive's Guide to Reclaiming the Constitution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/opinion/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-constitution-democrats-.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jedediah Purdy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Progressives should not just resist the erosion of important legal gains, but say what they believe the courts should do, and what they believe the Constitution means.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Nativism Is Transforming the Physical Landscape]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/trumpian-nativism-is-transforming-the-american-landscape/564026/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jedediah Purdy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the wilderness of the west to the mountaintops of Appalachia, the president&rsquo;s nationalism is remaking America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is America Still a 'Nation of Ideas'?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/05/america-nation-ideas-donald-trump-215532?lo=ap_e1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jedediah Purdy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is a bipartisan commonplace to talk about America as a nation of ideas. House Speaker Paul Ryan declared in 2016 that the United States is &ldquo;the only nation founded on an idea, not an identity.&rdquo; President Barack Obama said pretty much the same thing when he won reelection...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's New Opposition: The Left Has Been Reborn]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/140268/americas-new-opposition-left-resistance-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jedediah Purdy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In late October 2011, I was volunteering at the Occupy Wall Street library in lower Manhattan. Tucked into a corner of Zuccotti Park, the library was staffed mainly by anarchists of an exceedingly orderly bent. If society were suddenly freed from coercive institutions like libraries,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Voting-Rights Victory in North Carolina]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-voting-rights-victory-in-north-carolina</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jedediah Purdy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, three judges of the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, struck down key parts of a North Carolina election law. Passed by a Republican legislature in 2013, the law imposed strict voter-identification requirements, reduced the state&rsquo;s early-voting period, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Opt Out of Equality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-gop-opts-out-of-equality?intcid=mod-latest</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jedediah Purdy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On May 28th, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory vetoed Senate Bill Two, which proposed allowing public officials to temporarily stop performing weddings based on &ldquo;any sincerely held religious objection.&rdquo; In other words, if a public official were confronted by a gay couple...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Some Are More Equal Than Others]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/02/why-some-americans-are-more-equal-than-others.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jedediah Purdy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans pride themselves on an egalitarian society open to all. But some equality and inequality exist uneasily side by side. And the U.S. has never resolved this contradiction.If the world is lucky enough to produce historians of the early 21st century, one question seems certain to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[God Save Us From the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/22/god-save-the-united-states-from-this-anti-democratic-court.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jedediah Purdy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Should a self-respecting democracy have a Supreme Court like ours, with the power to overturn democratic legislation? More and more progressive observers are not so sure. But one thing is clear: we need a more mature relationship with the Court and, through it, a more open and democratic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time for Greens to Get Radical]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/26/green-politics-has-to-get-more-radical-because-anything-less-is-impractical.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jedediah Purdy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s natural to see US inaction on climate change as another symptom of our broken politics. The United Nations&rsquo; climate change panel has announced the world needs major US emissions controls on greenhouse gases to avoid global catastrophe. It didn&rsquo;t happen when the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What We Need to Fix the Climate Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/06/climate-change-needs-the-politics-of-the-impossible.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jedediah Purdy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&#194;&#146;s starting to feel like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change could keep issuing its reports from here to eternity. The Fifth Assessment Report, released just in time to avoid April Fool&#194;&#146;s Day, continues a steady trend: our knowledge is increasing, just about everything that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Whiteness in the Age of Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jedediah-purdy/whiteness-in-the-age-of-o_b_2193779.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jedediah Purdy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recall the numbers: 59 percent of white voters supported Romney. More dramatically, 88 percent of his votes came from whites. One simple but plausible analysis suggested that Obama won a majority of white votes only in New England, New York, and Hawaii. His national share of the white...]]></description>
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