Michael Greve is a legal scholar and political scientist known for his expertise in federalism, constitutional law, and regulatory policy. He is a professor at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School and a former resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard on federalism, Supreme Court dynamics, education reform, and diversity policy.
ON SEPTEMBER 18, THE Germans will go to the polls. The extraordinary elections are being held a year before the end of the Bundestag's regular four-year legislative term, thanks to an elaborate and, to many Germans, distasteful charade. That price would be well worth paying if it produced a…
The Implosion of American Federalism by Robert F. Nagel Oxford University Press, 209 pp., $35 THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM, like other wars before it, will enhance respect for the national government and increase its growth. That prediction, and the corollary prediction of federalism's demise, unites…
WHEN FLIGHT 11 CRASHED INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, President George W. Bush was sitting in on a second-grade class at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida. Later that day, he found himself preparing the nation for war. In a matter of hours, Bush had traversed a divide, from the…
THE EDUCATION "REFORM" about to emerge from Congress is a perfect disaster. Conservatives such as William Bennett and Chester E. Finn Jr., who initially supported and in many ways shaped the administration's position on education, now argue that the proposals have been so badly distorted and…
Bush cabinet nominees Gale Norton and John Ashcroft are running a humiliating gauntlet, forced to explain that their support for federalism in no way implies an endorsement of slavery or Jim Crow. The demagogic nature of the allegations against two honorable officials, however, should not blind…
"So much for states' rights," Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne sneered in commenting on the Supreme Court's ruling in Bush v. Gore. His comment encapsulated several weeks' worth of noisy complaints about Republican politicians. As the Gore camp portrayed it, the GOP was cynically selling out…
THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE of State Legislatures carted its members to Capitol Hill last month to protest the failure of the Internet tax commission to recommend a vast expansion of state and local tax authority over Internet sales. The commission, known formally as the Advisory Commission on…
Robert Berdahl is profoundly unhappy about the demise of racial preferences for admissions to the University of California. The lower enrollment of black students, Berdahl complains, "diminishes us." The royal "us" is Berkeley, the prestigious University of California campus over which Berdahl…
A December 5 House committee hearing on race and sex preferences provided a long-overdue opportunity to put egregious quota schemes on trial. Instead, the session (on the Canady-Dole bill, which would ban preferences in federal contracting) turned into an unfortunate object lesson in how not to…