John Fabian Witt

A new book argues that worship of the Constitution has distorted our politics.

The standard narrative of Roosevelt's court-packing efforts casts them as a failure. But what if they were a success?

The famous historian makes the claim that the demigods of American historical mythology can help us carve paths through our forbidding 21st-century wilderness.

Felix Frankfurter warned that politicians, not the courts, should make policy.

Yale's John Fabian Witt pens a review of Samuel Moyn's new book, Humane.

The most significant impact of the Senate’s super majority rules.

The 50-year effort to advance a conservative legal agenda.

While they advanced African American rights, they had serious flaws, Eric Foner writes.

Was the impeachment of Andrew Johnson a matter of national principles? Or an affair of pragmatic politics?