Mark Tushnet
marktushnet.bsky.social
Mark Tushnet
@marktushnet.bsky.social
Emeritus professor of constitutional law, including free expression and comparative constitutional law. Still trying to stay intellectually active.
Chevy Chase DC an hour in
October 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Dinner in the streets of the rat infested hell hole that is DC
August 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. From Tank Man to Sandwich Man.
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August 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
From Tushnet, Taking Back the Constitution (2020). To all the late arrivals welcome aboard. Or Felix Frankfurter: “Wisdom too often never comes so one ought not reject it merely because it comes late.”
July 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Used bookstore shelf where?
June 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Just out. Liz Fisher has a nice essay elsewhere on being in the back of the book. I feel her pain. My chapter on constitutional hardball is 60 out of 60! The collection looks really good. The structure reflects the editors’ judgment about the priority of normative matters for constitutional theory.
May 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Just out. My essay defends the idea that it’s coherent to have a constitutional commitment to a general right to liberty
May 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Speculative fiction reading (not my favorite genre but): Broken Earth Trilogy was OK--good in creating a realistic world but time-line was harder to follow than it should have been. The Sentence is law-focused--Raz, anarchist theory, and maybe too much more. But for law folks probably worth a read.
April 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
From my reading list: really interesting, really well written, and really long and heavy in its physical incarnation (3.7 lbs pb). I’m sure I got it as an honorarium in the years before ebooks.
February 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
First copies arrived! Get it while it’s hot!
January 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Highly recommended. More to come in a blog post but for now: you probably can come with lots of objections but afaict Guerrero’s that of them all & has responses.
December 26, 2024 at 3:00 AM
About as grim a novel as I’ve read recently. Short& compelling—read it in one evening. You wouldn’t want to spend time with the leading character IRL but you can understand her
November 30, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Interesting & prize-winning post-modern blend of 19th century escaped slave & seaman’s narratives. I found it eloquent in parts, thought-provoking but not really engaging.
November 29, 2024 at 4:11 AM
Publication date February 25
November 24, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Deserves the accolades
November 20, 2024 at 3:27 AM