More of a “what I’ve been reading” list, as this is a selection of what I’ve been reading while I was free from law school finals (and actually, the new semester starts tomorrow).
- Why Obama Can’t Close Guantanamo — This essay in Foreign Affairs is by Carol Rosenberg, the Miami Herald reporter who has extensively covered Gitmo goings-on.
- Smoke Screening — Charles C. Mann goes along with the security expert Bruce Schneier to National Airport outside DC and ponders the quandaries of security theater.
- Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President — A good, easy/quick-to-read book by the journalist Edward McClelland, it chronicles Barack Obama’s rise from community organizer through his time as a state senator in Illinois.
- How the Justices Get What They Want — Robert W. Gordon has this review of two new-ish books on the Supreme Court during FDR’s administration.
