Playing it Safe POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Local Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff

Erik Love draws on in-depth interviews with Middle Eastern American advocates

The conditions under which African writing developed in the past (only remotely similar to those of Western models)

and urban life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and illuminating how they merged in unexpected and public ways

Playing it Safe POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Local Tobias WolffIt is one of the unspoken truths of the American judicial system that courts go out of their way to avoid having to decide important and controversial issues. Even the Supreme Court from which the entire nation seeks guidance frequently engages in transparent tactics to avoid difficult, politically sensitive cases. The Court's reliance on avoidance has been inconsistent and at times politically motivated. For example, liberal New Deal Justices,