Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident — When Rights Aren’t Real
What makes a democratic right real: the words that guarantee it, or the institutions willing to enforce it?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident by Howard Zinn brings together essays written for The Nation across several decades, including firsthand reflections on the civil-rights movement, Vietnam, constitutional liberty, war, economic policy, and popular resistance.
This Deep Dive investigates a recurring pattern in Zinn’s work: democratic institutions frequently respond to injustice only after organized people…
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