Jeffrey Rosen

But as I wrote the book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet], I tried to write it as clearly and directly and passionately…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I think even though the court is moving toward trying to translate the Constitution into a digital age, there was that wonderful…

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That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in…

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When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin…

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[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing…

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I think he's [Louis Brandeis] a great model for progressive justices today who want to answer the originalists. It's not that the…

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[Tomas] Jefferson is more out of fashion, both because of his views on race, where he's properly questioned, that part of his…

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And he [Louis Brandeis] talks to his young acolyte, Horace Kallen, who wrote this beautiful book called Cultural Pluralism, and he comes…

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Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis…

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I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his…

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[Louis Brandeis] insisted on the necessity of public reason, which he thought could only be achieved if all of us just take…

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We need to protect the same amount of cognitive liberty in an age where you can invade people's thoughts without physically intruding…

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The tyranny of Harvard and Yale is another thing that transcends this problem of the set point. But what's so striking about…

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Do you think Bernie Sanders, for example, is citing Theodore Roosevelt as the progenitor of his critique of the banks when actually…

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Whenever I felt tempted to, I don’t know, watch cat videos or bad Netflix TV instead of writing this Brandeis biography, I…

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Louis Brandeis never had the opportunity - or he never sought the opportunity I should say - to work closely with African…

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[Louis] Brandeis is often painted as an acolyte of judicial restraint, or the view that judges should uphold laws whether or not…

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Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric…

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Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery,…

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He [Louis Brandais] did believe in the states famously as laboratories of democracy, to use that resonant phrase that Tea Party and…

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Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like…

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I don't think he would have had any trouble answering Justice Sonia Sotomayor's excellent challenge in a case involving GPS surveillance. She…

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I came to believe that actually [Louis] Brandeis tended to uphold laws that he liked and strike down those that he didn't,…

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[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and…

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[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

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