( Warning: Legal geekery AND rambling AND sentimentality within. )

I am reading a book called Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, by Kenji Yoshino, which I cannot recommend highly enough to anyone interested in the subject, even if the subtitle does sound like a bit of fear-mongering. It is written by a gay law professor from a Japanese family, and thus mixes a fair bit of autobiography into the ( Read more... )

For anyone out there interested in civil rights, equality between the sexes (or in general), and a bit of 20th century history, I recommend an excellent and well-spoken essay by Bertrand Russell, written way back in the day when the UK was rather more particular about who was allowed to vote. Although that particular battle is over (at least in ( Read more... )