Jeffrey Rosen
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Constitution Center CEO Jeffrey Rosen Has the Best Job in the World
Why the law professor and legal affairs editor at the New Republic moved to Philly to head up the National Constitution Center.
Jeffrey Rosen Picked To Lead Constitution Center – Forward.com
Author and professor Jeffrey Rosen has been named president and chief executive officer of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
Jeffrey Rosen Named New Head of National Constitution Center ...
Rosen is a law professor at George Washington University and legal affairs editor at "The New Republic."
Stephen Colbert tells Jeffrey Rosen why the NSA is spying on ...
From Yahoo News: The National Constitution Center's Jeffrey Rosen stood up for the Fourth Amendment in an appearance on The Colbert Report, as host ...
Books by Jeffrey Rosen
“The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America” (2025)
The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America
“The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America” (2024)
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
“Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law” (2019)
Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
“William Howard Taft: The American Presidents Series: The 27th President, 1909-1913” (2018)
The only man to serve as president and chief justice, who approached every decision in constitutional terms, defending the Founders’ vision against new populist threats to American democracyWilliam Howard Taft never wanted to be president and yearned instead to serve as chief justice of the United States. But despite his ambivalence about politics, the former federal judge found success in the executive branch as governor of the Philippines and secretary of war, and he won a resounding victory in the presidential election of 1908 as Theodore Roosevelt’s handpicked successor.In this provocative assessment, Jeffrey Rosen reveals Taft’s crucial role in shaping how America balances populism against the rule of law. Taft approached each decision as president by asking whether it comported with the Constitution, seeking to put Roosevelt’s activist executive orders on firm legal grounds. But unlike Roosevelt, who thought the president could do anything the Constitution didn’t forbid, Taft insisted he could do only what the Constitution explicitly allowed. This led to a dramatic breach with Roosevelt in the historic election of 1912, which Taft viewed as a crusade to defend the Constitution against the demagogic populism of Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.Nine years later, Taft achieved his lifelong dream when President Warren Harding appointed him chief justice, and during his years on the Court he promoted consensus among the justices and transformed the judiciary into a modern, fully equal branch. Though he had chafed in the White House as a judicial president, he thrived as a presidential chief justice.
“Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet (Jewish Lives)” (2016)
According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was "the Jewish Jefferson," the greatest critic of what he called "the curse of bigness," in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of his Supreme Court confirmation on June 1, 1916, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet argues that Brandeis was the most farseeing constitutional philosopher of the twentieth century. In addition to writing the most famous article on the right to privacy, he also wrote the most important Supreme Court opinions about free speech, freedom from government surveillance, and freedom of thought and opinion. And as the leader of the American Zionist movement, he convinced Woodrow Wilson and the British government to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Combining narrative biography with a passionate argument for why Brandeis matters today, Rosen explores what Brandeis, the Jeffersonian prophet, can teach us about historic and contemporary questions involving the Constitution, monopoly, corporate and federal power, technology, privacy, free speech, and Zionism.
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