Marina Harss
The Passion of Martha Graham

In a new biography, Deborah Jowitt meticulously describes Graham’s pioneering dances, but brushes lightly over Graham’s fervid, turbulent personal relationships, and the importance she ascribed to passion and sexual pleasure.

Pooja Bhatia
Haiti on the Precipice

The chaos and violence in Haiti today result from years of political interference from abroad and democratic decay at home.

Anahid Nersessian
Wanting for Nothing

Constance Debré’s novels, whose sensibility is minimalist and at times even desolate, reject the expectations of personal growth that animate much feminist literature.

David Shulman
Israel: The Way Out

If Israel is to survive, physically and spiritually, it needs to undergo, collectively, a sea change in its vision of reality and face some unpleasant though obvious facts.

Free from the Archives

In the Review’s June 6, 1968, issue, Ronald Dworkin wrote a legal and moral defense of disobeying draft laws, Rejecting “the mindless view that conscientious disobedience is the same as lawlessness,” he argued that punishing people who resist invalid or unjust laws is ultimately detrimental to the rule of law.

Ronald Dworkin
On Not Prosecuting Civil Disobedience

“There are, at least prima facie, some good reasons for not prosecuting those who disobey the draft laws out of conscience. One is the obvious reason that they act out of better motives than those who break the law out of greed or a desire to subvert government. Another is the practical reason that our society suffers a loss if it punishes a group that includes—as the group of draft dissenters does—some of its most thoughtful and loyal citizens. Jailing such men solidifies their alienation from society, and alienates many like them who are deterred by the threat.”

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