Balkin's analysis of the threats to the constitutional order is both timely and incisive. There has been a lot of talk about our constitutional discontents, but Balkin brings a keen analytical eye and a needed historical perspective to bear to the issue. This book deserves a careful reading from anyone who is concerned about the foundations of the American political system and its future.
Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. He is the founder and director of Yale's Information Society Project, an interdisciplinary center that studies law and new information technologies. He also directs the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression, and the Knight Law and Media Program at Yale. Balkin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the founder and editor
of the group blog Balkinization. He is the author of over one hundred thirty articles and the author or editor of fourteen books, including Democracy and Dysfunction (University of Chicago Press, with Sanford Levinson), Living Originalism (Harvard, Belknap Press), and Constitutional Redemption
(Harvard).