Appointed Tyrants
Philip Hamburger, the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor at Columbia Law School, is a master surveyor of legal history who clearly likes to rummage about in old English and early American legal vaults.
Book Reviews
Appointed Tyrants
Philip Hamburger, the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor at Columbia Law School, is a master surveyor of legal history who clearly likes to rummage about in old English and early American legal vaults.
Bright Lights, Big City
New York has a long history of political corruption.
Down to the Bare Wood
Understanding Clarence Thomas is Ralph Rossum's second study of the jurisprudence of "originalist" Justices on the Supreme Court.
Limiting Government, But Not Judges
In his new book, The Classical Liberal Constitution, Richard Epstein seeks to present a “distinctive synthesis†of constitutional law that is neither progressive nor conservative.
Too Much Hype Chasing Too Little Wisdom
A review of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty
I Feel Your Pain
The trump card of liberalism is always compassion. Whether it’s in a dorm room or on the Senate floor, in any debate the presumption is that liberals self-evidently care about people and their opponents do not.
Twilight of Democracy
A senior fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Francis Fukuyama has lately been speaking ill of democracy to readers unused to hearing it spoken ill of.
The Greening of America
A review of A Climate of Crisis: America in the Age of Environmentalism, by Patrick Allitt
Every Day in Every Way
Can American ingenuity bring back American greatness?
Shaking Hands with Madison and Lincoln
A review of Confronting Slavery: Edward Coles and the Rise of Antislavery Politics in Nineteenth-Century America, by Suzanne Cooper Guasco
Reading Is Fundamental
A review of Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books, by Wendy Lesser
A Mirror in Marble
A review of The Parthenon Enigma, by Joan Breton Connelly
Labor of Love
A review of All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood, by Jennifer Senior
The Logic of Liberty
A review of The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation, by David Brion Davis
This Means War
A review of Point of Attack: Preventive War, International Law, and Global Welfare, by John Yoo
The Year of Living Dangerously
A review of Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government, by Michael Nelson.
Bridge to Nowhere
A review of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, by Rick Perlstein
From the Editor's Desk
Essays
Orwell in the Orwellian Century
Even "the crystal spirit" had his The surest sign that a writer has made his mark is the adoption of his surname in common parlance as an adjective immediately significant even to those who barely know his work, or merely know of it.
While the Storm Clouds Gather*