“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.
If there are twin pylons on which our democratic deformities today seem to stand, they are identity and indifference. Democracies wage war in the...
Watching the scale, speed, and lawless ease with which some of the most storied postwar American institutions have been attacked and dismantled in the...
If freedom is the most molecular of human desires and hope the most fragile of human capacities, then fear is an all too human...
