BY MICHAH J. W. SMITH
Three years ago, Professor Mitchell Berman observed that constitutional scholars have recently begun to turn their attention away from constitutional “meaning” to what he loosely called “constitutional doctrine”— that is, the …
BY RYAN SPEAR
The God Delusion. By Richard Dawkins. Boston, Mass.: Houghton
Mifflin. 2006. Pp. 405. $27.00. Letter to a Christian Nation. By
Sam Harris. New York: Knopf. 2006. Pp. 96. $16.95. The Creation: An
Appeal to Save Life …
BY BRANDON BUSKEY
Our public defense systems are slowly rotting away. Since the Supreme Court’s 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, which required the states to provide counsel for indigent defendants, organizations like the National Legal …
BY NEIL GORMLEY
Is free trade irreconcilable with sustainable development? Some environmental groups, viewing the regime of international trade and investment liberalization as an obstacle to effective environmental protection, suggest so. While many have criticized specific …
by DAVID B. KENDALL
The loss of privacy seems to be a foregone conclusion in the information age. Polls show that most Americans believe they have lost all control over the use of personal information by …
by PETER HARBAGE & HILARY HAYCOCK
Health care has shaped up to be a major political issue this year in our nation’s capitol and in statehouses across the country. With a starring role in the presidential …
by KAREN DAVIS & CHRISTINE HARAN
Over the last year, lawmakers of both parties have embraced the importance of improving access to health care. Not only is health insurance emerging as a major issue in the …
by JOHN M. BOUMAN
The All Kids Health Insurance Act, which creates the All Kids program to provide health insurance to every child in Illinois regardless of income or status, was signed into law on November …
by CASS R. SUNSTEIN
Consider the following tales:
1. In the Great Society, government ofªcials are well-informed, well-motivated, and very wise. They are not vulnerable to the power of self-interested private groups. They are fully able to …
by LISA HEINZERLING & FRANK ACKERMAN
In his article in this issue, Professor Sunstein asks a provocative series of questions. What are the limits of the traditional approaches to welfare economics, which focus on the Pareto …
