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.

Red Tide Rising

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.