Commentary: The Supreme Court gets an F in history for its rationales in abortion, gun rulings
by Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune
Jul 01, 2022
3 minutes
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It happens at least once a semester. My students and I will be discussing a contested political issue — say, affirmative action or capital punishment — and someone will ask, “Professor, what does history say about it?”
My answer is always the same: History can inform our contemporary debates, but it can’t resolve them. It tells us how people in other times and places acted and thought. But they lived then, and we
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