Many are calling for a special prosecutor to take over the IRS scandal and with pinpoint legal accuracy get to the bottom of what happened. I suppose some now want a Kenneth Starr figure to appear and ram the Obama …
I agree with Greg Weiner that Woodrow Wilson changed the character of the American presidency and of the entire American political order, and not for the better. Where I disagree with Greg is whether Wilson and his 20th century …
Appearing in this space is a privilege; having the benefit of responses from scholars of such stature is especially so. I appreciate the careful and respectful reading both Stephen Knott and George Thomas gave to a confessedly polemical essay.…
Are we all Wilsonians now? Neoconservatives, it should be said in fairness, brought the 28th President’s ideology through the front door in the plain light of day in the form of a moralized and expeditionary foreign policy. What … Michael Greve’s earlier post on Administrative Law has inspired me to write a couple of posts about the subject. One of the key issues in Administrative Law is that administrative agencies do not conform to the separation of powers. In … As a presidential candidate in 2007 and 2008, Barack Obama made stirring pledges to respect the rule of law and to abide by constitutional limitations on certain presidential powers. He left no doubt that he intended to put an end … Jon Meacham concludes his Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power with quotations praising Jefferson from Abraham Lincoln, FDR, and Ronald Reagan. For Meacham, these were our “finest presidents,” and they looked to Jefferson to ground their own transformational presidencies. In … A friend from high school, distressed by the results of Tuesday’s balloting, circulated a prayerful plea that President Obama’s re-election indicates “our nation is in a sinful state” whose consequences we must “suffer” until we repent our “wicked ways.” This …
Not Creeping but Galloping to Caesarism
Congress, Heal Thyself
Congress and Deliberation in the Age of Woodrow Wilson: An Elegy
Responses
Combining Executive and Judicial Power
From Idealism to Power: The Presidency in the Age of Obama
Energy in the Executive: Thomas Jefferson’s Transformative Presidency
Restoring the Deliberate Sense of the Community
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