Noah Feldman Quotes
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It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.
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Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
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Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.
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In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
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In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.
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Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.
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The core idea that underlies all of our democratic states, the core political idea, is this idea that it's not that one person is the sovereign; it's that all of the people are sovereign.
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The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights.
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The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.
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The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.