Paul O. Carrese

A great paradox of America’s constitutional order today is that judges have never been more powerful, yet there has never been more disagreement among both judges and legal scholars about proper use of their power. Federal and state courts grow ever bolder, finding nearly every important issue . . . . Continue Reading »

Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan Knopf. 103 pp. $18 In a widely read and discussed essay in the Summer 2002 issue of Policy Review , Robert Kagan analyzed the increasingly rancorous relationship between the United States and Europe in terms favored by . . . . Continue Reading »

Forrest McDonald, the Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of Alabama, writes that “the most pervasive” problem besetting American politics in its first century after Independence was disagreement about “the nature of the Union and the line to be drawn . . . . Continue Reading »