Atlantic Unbound Archive

Jeffrey Rosen

Recent articles by Jeffrey Rosen

January/February 2007

Roberts's Rules

Chief Justice John Roberts says that if the Supreme Court is to maintain legitimacy, its justices must start acting more like colleagues and less like prima donnas.

June 2006

The Day After Roe

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, it will set off tectonic shifts in the American political landscape not seen since the civil-rights movement—or perhaps even the Civil War.

April 2005

Rehnquist the Great?

Even liberals may come to regard William Rehnquist as one of the most successful chief justices of the century.

April 2004

John Ashcroft’s Permanent Campaign

In the liberal imagination Attorney General John Ashcroft is an authoritarian and a religious zealot, bent on sacrificing liberty to achieve the illusion of safety from terror. But those who see Ashcroft as a zealot are missing Ashcroft the canny politician—a man beholden to both his polls and his God.