For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from… — Jeffrey Rosen Age Copy Share Image
William Howard Taft, who he embarrassed in these congressional hearings, attacks him as an emotionalist and a socialist and a cosmopolitan in… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis started off by embracing the Theodore Roosevelt notion that hyphenated Americanism was unpatriotic. You couldn't have dual loyalties. But then… — Jeffrey Rosen Americanism Copy Share Image
The tyranny of Harvard and Yale is another thing that transcends this problem of the set point. But what's so striking about… — Jeffrey Rosen African american Copy Share Image
The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination… — Jeffrey Rosen Anti semitism Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said… — Jeffrey Rosen Anniversary Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible… — Jeffrey Rosen American history Copy Share Image
[Tomas] Jefferson is more out of fashion, both because of his views on race, where he's properly questioned, that part of his… — Jeffrey Rosen Business Copy Share Image
It can sound trite if you just say citizens need to be educated for democracy to work, but for him it wasn't… — Jeffrey Rosen Challenges Copy Share Image
He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I think he's [Louis Brandeis] a great model for progressive justices today who want to answer the originalists. It's not that the… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
![“For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from wanting to efface our diversity of perspectives, we have to embrace it because that makes us more American, not less. In that sense, he's incredibly modern in an…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8db/jeffrey-rosen-13180_age_for-louis-brandeis-you-know-ethnicity-an_755034.jpg)
![“The tyranny of Harvard and Yale is another thing that transcends this problem of the set point. But what's so striking about [Louis] Brandeis is he had this vision of cultural pluralism that completely gave the lie to the idea that there was any inconsistency between being Jewish or being a woman…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/862/jeffrey-rosen-13180_african-american_the-tyranny-of-harvard-and-yale-is-anoth_2229543.jpg)
![“The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination and confirmation, which remains an unbroken record, although Merrick Garland will surpass it in July, if my math is right. Anti-Semitism was definitely not…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/454/jeffrey-rosen-13180_anti-semitism_the-historical-resonances-are-sharp-loui_1591867.jpg)
![“Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said I'd miss the hundredth anniversary unless I pumped the thing out in six months, because I'd been delaying and dilly dallying for so long. So he both inspired me to…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0f3/jeffrey-rosen-13180_anniversary_louis-brandeis-really-inspired-me-to-wri_110490.jpg)
![“[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a70/jeffrey-rosen-13180_american-history_louis-brandeis-like-tomas-jefferson-is-a_1341726.jpg)
![“[Tomas] Jefferson is more out of fashion, both because of his views on race, where he's properly questioned, that part of his legacy, but also because the libertarian critique of bigness in business and government, the idea that size is a danger is something that's shared on the right when it…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a93/jeffrey-rosen-13180_business_tomas-jefferson-is-more-out-of-fashion-b_1977431.jpg)
![“He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level. The most inspiring part of his legacy to me is his belief in the imperative and duty of self-education on behalf of citizens.” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/da1/jeffrey-rosen-13180_behalf_he-s-louis-brandais-so-suspicious-of-big_113363.jpg)
![“I think he's [Louis Brandeis] a great model for progressive justices today who want to answer the originalists. It's not that the original paradigm cases are irrelevant, but you have to focus on the values the framers were trying to protect, not on the means with which those values were invaded in…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2ce/jeffrey-rosen-13180_18th-century_i-think-he-s-louis-brandeis-a-great-mode_1976260.jpg)