Noah Feldman (born 1970) is an American author and professor of law at Harvard Law School. Read full biography of Noah Feldman →
During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through... →
Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme... →
From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the... →
Our post-denominational age should be the perfect time for a Mormon to become president, or at least the Republican nominee. Mormons share nearly all... →
The administration of George W. Bush, emboldened by the Sept. 11 attacks and the backing of a Republican Congress, has sought to further extend... →
I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I define it. Right? If he wants... →
In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his... →
The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in large measure by a single executive took a couple... →
The true test of whether Mr. Obama has improved on the Bush era lies in how his administration justifies its decisions on the 241 remaining... →
What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it is that the... →
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.
It seems strange to the rest of the world, but we Americans can't seem to stop talking about how other countries should be democratic like we are.
After 9/11, most Americans were in no mood to talk with our enemies in the Middle East, whatever those enemies' ideology, and the Bush... →
Noah Feldman (born 1970) is an American author and professor of law at Harvard Law School.