We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask o…

- Noah Feldman

Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?

- Noah Feldman

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had le…

- Noah Feldman

Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, …

- Noah Feldman

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

- Noah Feldman

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices …

- Noah Feldman

To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., wh…

- Noah Feldman

Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.

- Noah Feldman

Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for cont…

- Noah Feldman