Noah Feldman

How can you have the religion of the sovereign be the religion of the state if the sovereign belongs to many religions?…

— Noah Feldman

After 9/11, most Americans were in no mood to talk with our enemies in the Middle East, whatever those enemies' ideology, and…

— Noah Feldman

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

— Noah Feldman

The 1994 elections that brought Newt Gingrich to power in the House decisively shaped the remaining years of Bill Clinton's presidency, pushing…

— Noah Feldman

The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones…

— Noah Feldman

William O. Douglas married not one, not two, not three, but four hot blondes. He was not faithful to any of them,…

— Noah Feldman

The modern presidency, as expressed in the policies of the administration of George W. Bush, provides the strongest piece of evidence that…

— Noah Feldman

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in…

— Noah Feldman

The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in large measure by a single executive…

— Noah Feldman

Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and…

— Noah Feldman

Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain…

— Noah Feldman

We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis…

— Noah Feldman

The great difficulty with Guantanamo is it was perceived correctly as being a place where people were not being detained subject to…

— Noah Feldman

The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible…

— Noah Feldman

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the…

— Noah Feldman

The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights.

— Noah Feldman

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another…

— Noah Feldman

Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the…

— Noah Feldman

It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.

— Noah Feldman

Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness…

— Noah Feldman

During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and…

— Noah Feldman

It seems strange to the rest of the world, but we Americans can't seem to stop talking about how other countries should…

— Noah Feldman

Roosevelt got a chance to name an amazing nine justices of the Supreme Court. He was not namby-pamby on this question. He…

— Noah Feldman

From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up…

— Noah Feldman

Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?

— Noah Feldman