Search
James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
The Professor, The Cop And The President
On July 23, Henry Louis Gates—regarded at Harvard as America’s most eminent African-American academic—was cuffed and locked up for disorderly conduct by a Cambridge policeman named James Crowley.
From Emmitt Till to Skip Gates
If the Henry Louis Gates imbroglio makes anything clear it is that, in 2009, the mere implication of racial profiling in the arrest of a black professor...
Explaining 1968
Was it a revolution? No. More like a baby-boomer coming-out party— with a rough morning after. By Niall Ferguson.
The Beat Generation
Community policing at its best.
SIDEBAR: San Diego's Trailblazing Example.
SIDEBAR: New York City's Subway.
How Washington Subverts Your Local Sheriff
The bipartisan assault on local law enforcement
Killing Them Softly
Do needle-exchange programs ward off disease—or consign addicts to death on the installment plan?
Checks, Balances, and Wartime Detainees
The Supreme Court mediates as Congress abdicates