“Some friends say I made the Constitution, but I shall burn it.” — B R Ambedkar
“Ambedkar is a Constitutionalist only because he is a Revolutionary.” — Aishwary Kumar
Why are constitutions the site of our new civil wars? How did we, who live in democracies, become at once more fanatically attached to the words of the constitution and remorselessly barbaric in compromising its very spirit?
Mutant probes the most philosophically knotty, politically charged, and violently contested nucleus of modern democracies: their founding document.
“We lost our home, which means the familiarity of daily life. We lost our occupation, which means the confidence that we are of some...
Few words in our democratic language invoke visions as paradoxical and as powerful as sacrifice. On the one hand, sacrifice recalls an archaic, ritualistic,...
Watching the scale, speed, and lawless ease with which some of the most storied postwar American institutions have been attacked and dismantled in the...
