For the first time in my life, I got a prediction right. Before today’s decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, I was telling everyone I could that I was not particularly worried, that the core policy substance of the Affordable Care Act was safe. Here’s what my reasoning was, which I think was completely vindicated by […]
Steven M. Teles
Steven M. Teles is associate professor of political science at the Johns Hopkins University and the author most recently of The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, March/April 2012, Politics
Stay for Tea
The real Tea Partiers are worth getting to know. Because they’re going to be here a while. And they might prove useful.
Posted inPolitics
Remembering James Q. Wilson
James Q. Wilson is dead. I find it very hard to write those words. While I was not his student, his work had a profound impact on me, as it did on so many other political scientists. He was, quite simply, the most consequential student of American politics of the last half-century. Two decades ago, […]
Posted inMagazine, March/April 2011
One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Frederick Hess’s big new school reform idea is that no big new school reform idea works everywhere.
