Magna Carta

Nov

The Charter of the Forest: The Companion Document to the Magna Carta, 800 Years Later

2017 marks the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest, the scarcely-known companion to the Magna Carta, issued on November 6, 1217. Unlike the Magna Carta, which dealt with the rights …

The Magna Carta Manifesto is “MVP”

The Nation‘s blog The Beat listed Peter Linebaugh’s The Magna Carta Manifesto as one of it’s 2008 Most Valuable Progressives (MVPs), calling it “the year’s most lyrical and necessary book on liberty”. …