Journalism
Harvard Magazine online,
June 30, 2023
Harvard Magazine online,
October 31, 2022
Harvard Magazine,
November-December 2022
posted October 3, 2022
Review of:
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
by Brad Snyder,
Harvard Magazine,
September-October 2022
Scotusblog,
February 4, 2022
Review of:
The Anti-Oligarchy
Constitution:
Reconstructing the Foundations
of American Democracy
by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath,
Harvard Magazine,
January-February 2022
Harvard Magazine,
January-February 2022
Harvard Law Today,
June 14, 2021
Response to:
"The Loudest Voice at the Supreme Court: The Solicitor General’s Dominance of Amicus Oral Argument”
by Darcie Covert and Annie J. Wang,
Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc,
May 4, 2021
Review of:
Let the Lord Sort Them:
The Rise and Fall of
the Death Penalty
by Maurice Chammah,
The American Scholar,
February 8, 2021
Review of:
The Intellectual Sword:
Harvard Law School,
the Second Century
by Bruce A. Kimball and Daniel R. Coquillette
Harvard Magazine,
January-February 2021
Review of:
The Black Banners Declassified:
How Torture Derailed the War on Terror after 9/11
by Ali Soufan with Daniel Freedman
The American Scholar,
November 7, 2020
Harvard Magazine,
September-October 2020
The American Scholar,
July 9, 2020
newyorker.com,
June 30, 2020
Legal Eagles:
Increase Funding for
the Legal Services Corp.
by One Billion Dollars
Annually, Now
The Los Angeles Times,
Opinion, May 19, 2020
Review of:
Fidelity & Constraint
and They Don’t Represent Us
by Lawrence Lessig
Harvard Law Bulletin,
Winter 2020
The American Scholar,
Winter 2020
Review of:
When Should Law Forgive?
By Martha Minow
Harvard Magazine,
November-December 2019
Review of:
The Second Founding
By Eric Foner
The New York Times Book Review,
September 18, 2019
The American Scholar,
April 18, 2019
Harvard Magazine,
May-June 2019
Daedalus,
Winter 2019
The American Scholar,
Autumn 2018
Harvard Magazine,
September-October 2018
Review of
Eisenhower v. Warren:
The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties
by James F. Simon
The New York Times
Book Review,
June 12, 2018
"A President,
A Chief Justice, and
the Politics of
Segregation"
Harvard Magazine,
May-June 2018
Review of
The Three Lives of James Madison:
Genius, Partisan, President by Noah Feldman
Harvard Magazine,
January-February 2018
Harvard Law Bulletin,
Fall 2017
harvardmagazine.com,
November 1, 2017
Harvard Magazine,
November-December 2017
The Justice Gap:
America's Unfulfilled
Promise of "Equal
Justice Under Law"
"Nothing rankles more
than the feeling of injustice."
A side bar to The Justice Gap
wired.com,
October 11, 2017
Should Facebook
and Twitter be
Regulated under
The First Amendment?
newyorker.com,
April 12, 2017
newyorker.com,
March 21, 2017
Harvard Magazine,
March-April 2017
newyorker.com, December 31, 2016
The Growing Gap
Between the U.S.
and the International
Anti-Death-Penalty
Consensus
Review of The Framers' Coup:
The Making of the United States
Constitution by Michael J. Klarman,
Harvard Magazine,
January-February 2017
newyorker.com, November 30, 2016
Review/essay about Courting Death:
The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment,
by Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker,
cover story, Harvard Magazine,
November-December 2016
The American Prospect,
Fall 2016
Penn Press Log, October 3, 20016
newyorker.com, September 23, 2016
newyorker.com, September 14, 2016
The American Scholar,
Autumn, 2016
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Review of Engines of Liberty
by David Cole,
The American Scholar,
Summer, 2016
newyorker.com, June 1, 2016
newyorker.com, May 21, 2016
newyorker.com, May 9, 2016
newyorker.com, May 2, 2016
A Virginian with
a Felony Record
Can Now Vote,
But Getting a Job
Is No Easier
newyorker.com, April 20, 2016
newyorker.com, March 16, 2016
Merrick Garland,
President Obama's
Sensible Supreme
Court Choice
newyorker.com, February 25, 2016
newyorker.com, February 5, 2016
Cover story, Harvard Magazine,
January-February, 2016
newyorker.com, December 9, 2015
newyorker.com, December 3, 2015
newyorker.com, November 17, 2015
theatlantic.com, October 5, 2015
newyorker.com, September 30, 2015
newyorker.com, August 14, 2015
newyorker.com, August 7, 2015
newyorker.com, July 27, 2015
newyorker.com, July 21, 2015
newyorker.com, July 9, 2015
newyorker.com, June 29, 2015
newyorker.com, June 21, 2015
Review of Speak Now
by Kenji Yoshino,
The New York Times Book Review,
May 6, 2015
newyorker.com, May 5, 2015
newyorker.com, April 15, 2015
The American Prospect, Spring 2015
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Cover story, The American Scholar, Spring 2015
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Missouri Law Review, February 25, 2015
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Cover story, Harvard Magazine, January-February 2015
nytimes.com, Room for Debate/Opinion section, January 8, 2015
newyorker.com, January 6, 2015
Cover story, The American Scholar, Summer 2014
The New York Review of Books, December 5, 2013
Download PDF
Cover story, The American Scholar, Fall 2013
newyorker.com, September 14, 2013
The American Prospect, July/August 2013
Sunday Observer, The New York Times, March 13, 2013
Cover story, The American Scholar, Summer 2012
Sunday Observer, The New York Times, January 8, 2012
Review essay, Democracy, Fall 2011
Appreciation, The New York Times, March 24, 2011
Sunday Observer, The New York Times, November 25, 2010
Editorial Observer, The New York Times, September 26, 2010
Review of Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion by Stephen Wermiel and Seth Stern, Slate, October 21, 2010
Review of The Death of American Virtue: Clinton v. Starr by Ken Gormley, The American Scholar, Spring 2010
Review of The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate by James Rosen, Washington Post Book World, June 1, 2008
Slate, February 11, 2008
The American Scholar, Winter 2008
Slate, October 20, 2007
Slate, March 14, 2007
Slate, February 16, 2007
The Hartford Courant, January 9, 2006
Legal Affairs, May|June 2005
The Washington Post, May 8, 2005
The Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2004
The Washington Post, July 6, 2003
The New York Times, May 18, 2001
Review of One Case at a Time: Judicial Minimalism on the Supreme Court by Cass Sunstein, The New York Times Book Review, May 30, 1999