The proportional-representation systems that the Justice Department is considering will not remedy violations to the 1965 Voting Rights Act or erase race from American politics.

Panelists representing each side will discuss the legal and political issues raised by the case, Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder.

Richard J. McNally's Remembering Trauma is a powerful counterweight to literature that is often sloppy and to a field that is too often susceptible to the promptings of politics and culture.