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1943

Showing 43 works across all media from 1943

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials, and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.

Robert H. Jackson
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · 1943
★ 6.8
Fiction · Romance

Love in a Fallen City

Eileen Chang
1943 · 321 pages

Bai Liusu, a divorcee her Shanghai family treats as a disgrace, follows a rich bachelor to Hong Kong. Chang writes their courtship as cold accounting until the Japanese bombardment reaches the city.

★ 6.8
Fiction

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse
1943 · 558 pages

Centuries from now, scholars in the cloistered province of Castalia play a game fusing music, mathematics, and all learning. Joseph Knecht rises to master it, then asks what the world outside is owed.

★ 6.5
Nonfiction · Philosophy

Gravity and Grace

Simone Weil
1943 · 236 pages

Weil held that the soul falls by a law as fixed as gravity and that grace enters only a void, which is why affliction, stripping everything away, can open a person to God.

★ 6.5
Fiction · Political fiction

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand
1943 · 736 pages

Howard Roark would rather break rock in a quarry than compromise a design, and when his housing project is altered he dynamites it. American individualism has had no more seductive hero.

★ 5.7
Essay · Anthology · Historical literature

Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as "the truth" exists.... The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, "It never happened"—well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five—well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs.

★ 3.6
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