Balkinization

From this week's New Yorker : Jeffrey Toobin, "In the Balance," http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/03/in-the-balance ...

A significant criticism of Donald Trump is that he has not released his tax returns (which I'm sure are amazing and fantastic if only we...

Events of the past decade (should) have made us aware that low-probability events can, nonetheless, take place and test the resilience of sy...

On two occasions in the last month, I've been present when speakers discussing Justice Scalia's legacy have anchored their praise fo...

Ira C. Lupu and Robert W. Tuttle’s new book, Secular Government, Religious People is one of the very best overviews of the American law of...

One of Donald Trump's campaign promises is to renegotiate NAFTA (into a more amazing and fantastic agreement, no doubt). Here's a si...

Laurence H. Tribe This is a tale of two legal "cities," both populated by stories linking a person’s place of birth to that...

UPDATE:  I think it's probably correct, as suggested by some of the discussants, that it may be excessive to suggest that tall of the &q...

For the purposes of this post, assume that the Democrats win the White House in November.  If this happens, they will have won the popular v...

I was struck last week in Philadelphia, in several conversations at the APSA convention, with the relative complacency about the prospect of...

What follows are some reflections on the usage -- not the meaning -- of the metaphor "grading on a curve." When people say that t...

Last week at the American Political Science Association, I gave a talk on a panel on Justice Scalia's legacy. This is a summary of my re...

Since Mark Graber discussed yesterday’s New York Times op-ed about the alleged death of political h...

The New York Times editorial page today announced the death of political history .  This may well be true of history departments, but the mo...

I once sat in on a class in which the instructor was trying to get students to see one aspect of the difference betwee...

The widely noted University of Chicago letter to freshman is, I’m afraid – with due respect to my friends there – basi...

Dr. Naomi Graber on the University of Chicago and "safe spaces." Seems right to me. Dear Dr. Ellison,   In your welcome le...

As the New Yorker reports , the narcissistic sociopath running for President on the Republican ticket brought Nigel Farage, the former leade...

So far, anyway. For the last ten years or so, I’ve had a framed New Yorker cartoon on the outside of my office door.   It’s a cour...