• Democracy for Grownups

    By RICHARD L. HASEN

    Review of DEMOCRACY MORE OR LESS: America’s Political Reform Quandary, by Bruce E. Cain

    November 09, 2015
  • On Kantian Metaphysics

    By ROBERT PIPPIN

    Review of The Poverty of Conceptual Truth. Kant’s Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and the Limits of Metaphysics, by R. Lanier Anderson

    November 04, 2015
  • Pynchon’s Pop Fiction

    By ERIC SANDBERG

    Review of Bleeding Edge, by Thomas Pynchon

    November 02, 2015
  • The Right to Know

    By MARTHA MINOW

    Review of The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945-1975, by Michael Schudson

    November 02, 2015
  • The Arc Is Long

    By RACHAEL V. COBB

    Review of Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy, by Gary May

    October 28, 2015
  • Altruistic Evil

    By MARTHA MINOW

    Review of Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence, by Jonathan Sacks

    October 26, 2015
  • Finance By and For the People

    By PETER CONTI-BROWN

    Review of Smart Money: How High-Stakes Financial Innovation is Reshaping Our World—For the Better, by Andrew Palmer

    October 21, 2015
  • When Thirteen Clocks Were Made to Strike (Mostly) Together

    By ALISON L. LACROIX

    Review of Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776, by Richard R. Beeman

    October 19, 2015
  • Coercion and the Law

    By YASMIN DAWOOD

    Review of The Force of Law, by Frederick Schauer

    October 14, 2015
  • Not Your Grandfather's Propaganda

    By BRIAN LEITER and SAMUEL LEITER

    Review of How Propaganda Works, by Jason Stanley

    October 12, 2015
  • The Stanford School of Ancient History

    By ADRIAAN LANNI

    Review of The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece, by Josiah Ober

    October 07, 2015
  • A World Made Safe for Empire

    By UDI GREENBERG

    Review of The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire, by Susan Pedersen

    October 05, 2015
  • The Rhetorical Presidency Meets the Drone Presidency

    By DAVID POZEN

    Review of Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration’s Addresses on National Security Law, by Kenneth Anderson and Benjamin Wittes

    September 30, 2015
  • Property and Politics

    By EDUARDO M. PEÑALVER

    Review of The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain, by Ilya Somin

    September 28, 2015
  • A Phool and His Money

    By ALEX TABARROK

    Review of PHISHING FOR PHOOLS: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, by George A. Akerlof and Robert Shiller

    September 23, 2015
    Alex Tabarrok review of PHISHING FOR PHOOLS book
  • Revolution and Liberation: A Call for Secular and Religious Argumentative Engagement

    By DAVID A. FRANK 

    Review of THE PARADOX OF LIBERATION: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions, by Michael Walzer

    September 21, 2015
  • Not Infallible

    By ERIC J. SEGALL

    Review of An Introduction To The Constitution, by Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen

    September 16, 2015
  • A Whale of a State

    By SRIRAM SRIKUMAR

    Review of The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State, by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

    September 14, 2015
  • Sleight of Hand

    By SAMUEL MOYN

    Review of Invisible Hands: Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century, by Jonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman

    September 09, 2015
  • Medical Care as Harm

    By DON HERZOG

    Review of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande

    September 07, 2015