Jeff Stein
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Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project. Views here are my own.
You may also dig this post by Ethan Iverson (which analyzes Lil Hardin’s solo chorus as part of a larger argument about the role of blues in jazz music): ethaniverson.com/lil-hardin-t...
Lil Hardin Teaches the Blues
(A missive for my students at NEC.) Is the blues important to jazz? If so, what is the blues? I don’t have an answer to these questions. Every practitioner will need to decide for themselves. At th…
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December 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
You may also dig this post by Ethan Iverson (which analyzes Lil Hardin’s solo chorus as part of a larger argument about the role of blues in jazz music): ethaniverson.com/lil-hardin-t...
Her stone cold classic “In the Freud Archives” also yielded an incredible legal dispute about quotations and defamation law that made it all the way to the Supreme Court (supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...)
Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc., 501 U.S. 496 (1991)
Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Her stone cold classic “In the Freud Archives” also yielded an incredible legal dispute about quotations and defamation law that made it all the way to the Supreme Court (supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...)