How Antonin Scalia ceased to be a powerhouse jurist and became a crank.
Michael O'Donnell
Michael O’Donnell is a lawyer in the Chicago area. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic.
Posted inBooks, January/February 2014, Magazine, Politics
Letters from Camelot
Even in his private correspondence, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was an unapologetic Kennedy partisan.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, Politics, September/October 2013
What Tea Party Republicans Can Learn From Woodrow Wilson
Averse to compromise, he died a bewildered and broken man.
Posted inBooks, Economy, Magazine, May/June 2013
The Great Unraveling
Chronicling America’s not-quite-decline.
Posted inPolitics
Salute to Andy Roddick
In a break from convention news, sports fans have no doubt been following Andy Roddick’s retirement from professional tennis. On Wednesday Roddick—who had announced that this year’s U.S. Open would be his last tournament—lost his fourth-round match to Argentinian Juan Martin del Potro. The tributes have poured in, focusing on Roddick’s stature as the last […]
Posted inBooks, Magazine, Politics, September/October 2012
A Malevolent Forrest Gump
Strom Thurmond’s loathsomeness on race obscures his larger role: he was there at all the major choke points of modern conservative history.
Posted inBooks, Government, July/August 2012, Magazine
Young Guns
Obama’s surprisingly strong national security record owes much to a group of youthful aides few Americans have heard of.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, March/April 2012
Thinking Out Loud
An oral history of the twentieth century, dictated on his deathbed, shows that Tony Judt was, to the end, the consummate public intellectual.
Posted inBooks, January/February 2012, Magazine
The Last Days of Hugh Trevor-Roper
How a historian who reveled in destroying the reputations of others ruined his own.
Posted inBooks, From The Archives, Law and Justice, Magazine, November/December 2011
Justice Served
John Paul Stevens’s Supreme Court tenure was marked by the firm belief that absolutism had no place on the bench.
