Noah Feldman

The administration of George W. Bush, emboldened by the Sept. 11 attacks and the backing of a Republican Congress, has sought to…

— Noah Feldman

Our post-denominational age should be the perfect time for a Mormon to become president, or at least the Republican nominee. Mormons share…

— Noah Feldman

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end…

— Noah Feldman

The Chinese public is deeply nationalist, which matters to China's unelected political leadership as much as U.S. nationalism does to American politicians.…

— Noah Feldman

In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.

— Noah Feldman

When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps…

— Noah Feldman

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…

— Noah Feldman

Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are…

— Noah Feldman

In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework…

— Noah Feldman

The true test of whether Mr. Obama has improved on the Bush era lies in how his administration justifies its decisions on…

— Noah Feldman

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.

— Noah Feldman

Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration.

— Noah Feldman

Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before…

— Noah Feldman

Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.

— Noah Feldman

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly…

— Noah Feldman

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system,…

— Noah Feldman

Since the birth of modern Orthodox Judaism in 19th-century Germany, a central goal of the movement has been to normalize the observance…

— Noah Feldman

To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the…

— Noah Feldman

Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administration opted for a new…

— Noah Feldman

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools…

— Noah Feldman

The core idea that underlies all of our democratic states, the core political idea, is this idea that it's not that one…

— Noah Feldman

For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go…

— Noah Feldman

The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white…

— Noah Feldman

Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity…

— Noah Feldman

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