The diverse frailties of humankind
Via Martha Nussbaum’s Poetic Justice, an excerpt from Woodson v. North Carolina (1976):
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Via Martha Nussbaum’s Poetic Justice, an excerpt from Woodson v. North Carolina (1976):
This link goes to a fascinating little explainer by Popehat on Twitter. Excerpted here and lightly edited for readability:
For Valentine’s Day, I want to talk about the poem I posted the other day, “Law, Like Love” by WH Auden, and why it means so much to me.
Law, say the gardeners, is the sun, Law is the one All gardeners obey To-morrow, yesterday, to-day.