Overruled: How Conservative Was Chief Justice Rehnquist?
The Other Value of Life
Capitalism Is Regulation
Perils and Privileges
How Do We Know?
DID OBAMA’S STIMULUS increase employment, or would employment have risen even without it? Will the Affordable Care Act increase health insurance coverage without causing medical costs to skyrocket? Would national testing of children improve education or worsen it? Most urgent questions of public policy turn on empirical imponderables, and so policymakers fall back on ideological predispositions or muddle through. Is there a better way? READ MORE >>
The Longest Battle
MARY DUDZIAK’S TITLE has two words because she wants to emphasize the role of “time” in legal and public thinking about the fight against Al Qaeda and in earlier militarized conflicts. Dudziak argues that “‘wartime’ is necessarily entering a temporary condition. Built into the concept of wartime is the assumption of an inevitable endpoint.” And yet, she says, “war has become part of the normal course of American life.” READ MORE >>
