Almost everyone these days, regardless of formal political identification, agrees that one implication of our present discontent is the need to revamp our system of regulation vis-à-vis the domestic and international economy. Republicans and Democrats no doubt disagree on particular solutions, but few indeed are currently willing to repeat the...

One can interpret today's decision in the Heller case from both "external" political perspectives or from a more "internal" legal one. I begin with the former: My own hope, which was spectacularly unrealized, was that the Supreme Court would unanimously accept the very well-written and -argued brief by the...