Gouverneur Morris--the colorful, peg-legged lawyer who wrote the U.S. Constitution--deserves to be better known. Max Byrd reviews two new biographies.
Can one find aesthetic quality in low and middle "consumer culture"? Paul Fussell is skeptical.
People respond to surveys all the time, even on subjects about which they know absolutely nothing.
We've made the Founding Fathers into mythical figures, and that may not be a good thing.
Many Americans were surprised to discover, during the 2000 election, that voting is not a guaranteed right. Is a constitutional amendment in order?
As the United States is rediscovering in Iraq, building a nation isn't so easy.
Protecting America's coasts and allowing free trade has become a difficult balancing act for the U.S. Coast Guard.
Should the U.S. military lift its ban on known homosexuals?
"International law is a threat to democracy and to the hopes of democratic politics all over the world," writes law professor Jed Rubenfeld. Here, his provocative, timely thesis.
The world needs international law. But does the United States?