About the Bibliographies

Several essays have an annotated bibliography — a companion document mapping the essay's claims onto the scholarly literature that supports, complicates, or challenges them. Not a literature review: for each claim, here is what the essay asserts, here is the evidence behind it, and here is where the evidence pushes back.

Every source cited was engaged with directly — not cited secondhand from a summary or another author's framing — enough to verify it actually supports the point it's cited for. Paywalled sources took real effort to track down. Links point to the official, canonical source rather than wherever an accessible copy was actually found; those unofficial copies tend to move or disappear, and readers with institutional access will find the canonical link works directly for them anyway. For everyone else, a paywalled citation is worth a search for an accessible copy at the time of reading rather than relying on a link here.

Format varies somewhat from one bibliography to the next — this is still evolving, and different essays may call for different approaches.