To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administration opted for a new… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
The administration of George W. Bush, emboldened by the Sept. 11 attacks and the backing of a Republican Congress, has sought to further extend… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Our post-denominational age should be the perfect time for a Mormon to become president, or at least the Republican nominee. Mormons share nearly all… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
The Chinese public is deeply nationalist, which matters to China's unelected political leadership as much as U.S. nationalism does to American politicians. As China… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have. — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are denied 'habeas… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
The true test of whether Mr. Obama has improved on the Bush era lies in how his administration justifies its decisions on the 241… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy. — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration. — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
