Jeffrey Rosen

Privacy is not for the passive.

— Jeffrey Rosen

I'd say that [Louis] Brandeis practiced a kind of a "living originalism," to use the title of Jack Balkin's great book. He…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said…

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He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the…

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Louis Brandeis started off by embracing the Theodore Roosevelt notion that hyphenated Americanism was unpatriotic. You couldn't have dual loyalties. But then…

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It can sound trite if you just say citizens need to be educated for democracy to work, but for him it wasn't…

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They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis's is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But,…

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Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of…

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Basically [Louise] Brandeis was a Jeffersonian. And you say the timing is great, and it is in a lot of senses, except…

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It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he…

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[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone…

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For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from…

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[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and…

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What is so inspiring about [Louis] Brandeis's writing is he saw it as a tool for democratic education. He would say things…

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[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered…

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Initially the papers said that the fact that Louis Brandeis was picked because he was Jewish. The New York Sun said he's…

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Louis Brandeis was not a racist like Woodrow Wilson.

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For [Louis] Brandeis, it's not a technical question of channeling what would James Madison say. It's how do we take these inherent…

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[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible…

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I think [Louis] Brandeis challenges all of the current justices. As he said, "If we would guide by the light of reason,…

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William Howard Taft, who he embarrassed in these congressional hearings, attacks him as an emotionalist and a socialist and a cosmopolitan in…

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The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination…

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We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as…

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He [Louis Brandeis] would have not had any patience with that great debate which you're right to kind of signal between Justice…

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Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He…

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