Monthly Review | Chandler Davis: Dissent and Solidarity
““However, it happened that one summer ten distinguished members of my faculty convened (five at a time) and unanimously declared me guilty of ‘deviousness…
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““However, it happened that one summer ten distinguished members of my faculty convened (five at a time) and unanimously declared me guilty of ‘deviousness…
Davis was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, a champion for civil rights and women's rights, and a consultant on the film “The Return of Martin Guerre.”
I’d chosen history because I thought my enduring love for writing would find its best home within the discipline. But as a writer, I know now that I waited a long time to unmask my true identity.
Express View: While the tax system must ensure that firms pay their fair share of taxes, and leakages are minimised, it must also work towards simplifying the tax rules, reducing uncertainty and discretion in the system and easing the compliance burden
Natalie Zemon Davis, a social and cultural historian whose imaginative and deeply researched investigations of the lives of marginalized figures