Response to Our Readers

For the Balkinization symposium on Mark Tushnet and Bojan Bugaric, Constitutionalism and Its Discontents (University of Chicago Press, 2026).Mark Tushnet and Bojan BugaricAs several contributors to this book review symposium emphasize, conventions are important elements in institutional designs that contribute to social and political stability. With that in mind we follow the convention of thanking all the contributors for the attention and seriousness they devoted to our book. We add one thing: a recognition that review symposia like this one are especially well-suited to the blog format even as the long-form blog has gone into serious decline. Coordinating a symposium via Substack would be difficult, even putting aside questions about paywalls and the like; doing so on Bluesky would be impossible; and maintaining a podcast or newsletter, whether paid or not, would require a different level of commitment than does maintaining a blog. So our thanks go to Jack Balkin as well for his…