Edward White is a writer and cultural commentator who contributed essays and reviews to The Weekly Standard between 2009 and 2016. His pieces for the magazine explored intellectual history and cultural topics.
This history of Harvard Law School in its first century (1817-1917) appears at a time when several American colleges and universities are revisiting, and in some instances seeking to revise, their pasts. The revisionist impulses originate in a perceived dissonance between values currently endorsed…
Learned Hand, whose last year of judicial service was 1961, may be poised on the edge of obscurity, but Ronald Dworkin’s foreword to this volume serves as a reminder that many of Hand’s clerks ended up occupying very distinguished positions in the legal profession. A review of Hand’s opinions on…
Louis D. Brandeis