Exploring the often invisible structures that shape a human life: family, memory, faith, responsibility, friendship, grief, tradition, and the ordinary acts through which we become capable of belonging to one another.
Professor of constitutional law. Author of When Islam Is Not a Religion and The Politics of Vulnerability (Pegasus/Simon & Schuster). Former First Amendment litigator. I write about rights and relationships, the systems and the people who hold us up.
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