Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Robert Post's new book, The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to the Symposium
2. Laura Kalman, Why Was Taft a Better Chief Justice than President?
3. Stephen Breyer, Comments on Robert Post’s Supreme Court History of the Taft Court, Part IV, The Taft Court as an Institution
4. Brad Snyder, Taft Packed the Supreme Court – Twice
5. William J. Novak, The Taft Court and America’s Jurisprudence of Reaction
6. Jeffrey Rosen,The Four Constitutional Narratives of the Taft Court
7. David Bernstein, Social and Economic Legislation during the Taft Court
8. Lisa McGirr , An Experiment in Federal Centralization: Prohibition and the Taft Court
9. William Forbath, Where the Ruling Class Went to Rule – Law’s Violence in the Era of William Howard Taft
10. Jill Lepore, A Perpetual Monopoly
11. Thomas P. Schmidt, Building the Court
12. Ariela Gross, The Taft Court, Equal Protection, and The Centrality (or not) of Race
13. James E. Fleming, The Taft and Roberts Courts’ Quests for Returns to Conservative “Normalcy”: A Comment on Robert Post’s The Taft Court
14. Edward A. Purcell, The Taft Court: Law, History, and the Jurisprudence of Federalism
15. Robert Post, Response to Commentators