Heretics in the Temple Jeremy W. Pettit and what can we do

and what can we do about it

including postmortems of warning failures

What is it about the human psyche that gives us such a lurid fascination with all things related to death

mitigating the former and fostering the latter can be challenging

Heretics in the Temple Jeremy W. Pettit and what can we doAmericans seem increasingly disenchanted with their legal system. In the wake of several high profile trials, America's faith in legal authority appears profoundly shaken. And yet, as David Ray Papke shows in this dramatic and erudite tour of American history, many Americans have challenged and often rejected the rule of law since the earliest days of the country's founding. Papke traces the lineage of such legal heretics from nineteenth century