Essay | Winter 2022
Contributing Editor
Adam J. White
Adam J. White, a New Atlantis contributing editor, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and co-director of George Mason University’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State.
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Other Publications
- “Beware of Russians Bearing Gifts,” The Weekly Standard, May 11, 2015
- “Kennedy’s Constitutional Concerns, Then and Now,” WeeklyStandard.com, March 4, 2015
- “Roberts’s Frost,” WeeklyStandard.com, January 8, 2015
- “Obamacare’s State of Crisis,” The Weekly Standard, November 24, 2014
- “Electing Federalism,” The Weekly Standard, November 17, 2014
- “Kennedy’s Question,” The Weekly Standard, April 28, 2014
- “‘Just, Wise, and Constitutional’: Justice Thomas’s Legacy in Law and Politics,” Liberty Forum, April 17, 2014
- “The D.C. Circuit Goes Nuclear,” WeeklyStandard.com, August 23, 2013
- “The Regulatory Court,” The Weekly Standard, August 26, 2013
- “As Court Winds Down, Justice Alito Winds Up,” The Weekly Standard, June 20, 2013
- “Steven Chu Reaches for the ‘Master Switch,’” WeeklyStandard.com, June 10, 2013
- “The Signal and the Silence,” City Journal Spring 2013
- “Obama’s Regulatory Rampage,” The Weekly Standard, January 28, 2013
- “The Blessings of Liberty,” The Weekly Standard, December 10, 2012
- “A Liberal Who Preached Restraint,” Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2013
- “Watch What Warren Buffett Does, Not What He Says,” The Weekly Standard, November 26, 2012
- “The Rise and Rise of Independent Federal Agencies,” Library of Law and Liberty, November, 14, 2012
- “The Biggest Kiss,” The Weekly Standard, October 29, 2012
- “Bork Won,” Commentary, October 2012
- “Online Alexander Bickel symposium: Bickel’s principled prudence,” Scotusblog.com August 15, 2012
- “Obama's Cynical Energy Agenda,” National Affairs, Summer 2012
- “Marshalling Precedent: With Nod to Predecessor, Roberts Affirms Mandate,” WeeklyStandard.com, June 28, 2012
- “An Inter-Agency Turf War Winds Up In Federal Court,” WeeklyStandard.com, April 26, 2012
- “‘The Constitutional Guarantee of Liberty Deserves More Respect,’” WeeklyStandard.com, April 20, 2012
- “Reigning In the Agencies,” National Affairs, Spring 2012
- “Mitch's Mistake,” WeeklyStandard.com, April 5, 2012
- “Flunking Constitutional Law,” WeeklyStandard.com, April 4, 2012
- “President Obama, Fair Weather Friend of the Court,” WeeklyStandard.com, April 3, 2012
- “Ahead of His Class,” Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2012
- “Obamacare on Trial: The Next Round of Arguments,” WeeklyStandard.com, March 30, 2012
- “On the Left, the Obamacare Debate Continues,” WeeklyStandard.com, March 30, 2012
- “Obamacare on Trial: The Individual Mandate,” WeeklyStandard.com, March 27, 2012
- “Obamacare on Trial: Day One,” WeeklyStandard.com, March 26, 2012
- “Without Precedent,” The Weekly Standard, March 26, 2012
- “‘When the facts change, I change my mind,’” Liberty Forum, March 2, 2012
- “The Lost Greatness of Alexander Bickel,” Commentary, March 2012
- “Confirmation Bias: A Shameless Flip-Flop on Recess Appointments,” WeeklyStandard.com, January 10, 2012
- “An Unconstitutional Appointment to an Unconstitutional Office,” WeeklyStandard.com, January 5, 2012
- “Weak Justification for Executive Overreach,” WeeklyStandard.com, January 12, 2012
- “Judging President Obama’s Nominees by Senator Obama’s Standard,” WeeklyStandard.com, December 6, 2011
- “Powering Down,” The Weekly Standard, November 21, 2011
- “Steve Jobs, and the Valley that Created Him,” WeeklyStandard.com, October 6, 2011
- “Off the Bench, Into the Fray,” Wall Street Journal, October 6, 2011
- “When It Comes To Liberty, Michele Bachmann Knows It When She Sees It,” WeeklyStandard.com, September 6, 2011
- “Political Checks on the Supreme Court, Then and Now,” WeeklyStandard.com, September 2, 2011
- “The Tea Party’s Constitution,” The Weekly Standard, August 29, 2011
- “The Burkean Justice,” The Weekly Standard, July 18, 2011
- “Government by Waiver%u2014Immigration Edition,” WeeklyStandard.com, June 28, 2011
- “Gas or Hot Air?,” WeeklyStandard.com, June 14, 2011
- “Justice Scalia Calls on the Court to Define Deference Down,” WeeklyStandard.com, June 10, 2011
- “Finally, A Speaker Who Knows Whereof She Speaks,” WeeklyStandard.com, March 25, 2011
- “William Stuntz, 1958-2011,” WeeklyStandard.com, March 16, 2011
- “Guantanamo and the New York Times’s Latest Legal Fiction,” WeeklyStandard.com, March 3, 2011
- “Green Power, Red Lights,” The Weekly Standard, February 28, 2011
- “Justice Mike Lee?,” WeeklyStandard.com, February 4, 2011
- “Linda Greenhouse, Constitution-in-Exiler,” WeeklyStandard.com, January 24, 2011
- “Justices Disclosed Expenses from the Federalist Society in 2008, 2009,” WeeklyStandard.com, January 20, 2011
- “Equal Justice, Fair Fights,” WeeklyStandard.com, January 19, 2011
- “Misreading the Constitution,” WeeklyStandard.com, January 6, 2011
- “The ACLU Sues to Prohibit ‘Targeted Killing’ of Foreign and U.S.-Born Terrorists,” WeeklyStandard.com, August 31, 2010
- “Does Arizona’s Future Lie in Virginia?,” WeeklyStandard.com, August 3, 2010
- “The Federal Court’s Faulty Arizona Immigration Decision,” WeeklyStandard.com, August 3, 2010
- “Don’t Short the D.C. Circuit,” WeeklyStandard.com, July 27, 2010
- “Would Kagan Have to Recuse Herself from Obamacare Cases?,” WeeklyStandard.com, July 13, 2010
- “Obama v. Arizona,” WeeklyStandard.com, July 9, 2010
- “The Senate Has a Choice, Not an Echo,” WeeklyStandard.com, July 2, 2010
- “Free Money Comes At A High Price -- Even For Journalists,” WeeklyStandard.com, June 4, 2010
- “No Habeas Relief for Bagram Air Force Base Detainees,” WeeklyStandard.com, May 28, 2010
- “Circuit Breaker,” WeeklyStandard.com, May 26, 2010
- “Holder: Opposed to ‘Cowardice’ on Race, But Scared of the Civil Rights Commission,” WeeklyStandard.com, April 15, 2010
- “Questionable Legal Analysis from the Times,” WeeklyStandard.com, March 30, 2010
- “Questioning Clarence Thomas’s Wife,” WeeklyStandard.com, March 17, 2010
- “McDonald v. City of Chicago,” WeeklyStandard.com, March 4, 2010
- “The Bush Admin. Wasn’t Required to Inform Congress of Secret CIA Program,” WeeklyStandard.com, July 17, 2009
- “‘Prejudging’ the Past?,” WeeklyStandard.com, July 14, 2009
- “The Future of FERC’s ‘Conditioning Authority,’” Law360, April 9, 2009
- “We Need to Lift Permanently the Moratorium on Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing,” ABA Trends, Jan./Feb. 2009
- “Wilkinson and Posner, Dissenting,” WeeklyStandard.com, December 15, 2008
- “Power Runs Through States,” Legal Times, December 8, 2008
- “Will the Real VP Please Step Forward? Defining the Role of the Vice President,” Legal Times, 27 October 2008
- “Fire When Ready,” WeeklyStandard.com, September 19, 2008
- “Primary Evidence,” WeeklyStandard.com, March 13, 2008
- “0-for-2,” WeeklyStandard.com, April 18, 2007
- “Specter v. Gonzales,” WeeklyStandard.com, January 25, 2007
- “The Constitution, Writ or Wrong,” WeeklyStandard.com, October 5, 2006
- “Justice Jackson’s Draft Opinions in the Steel Seizure Cases,” Albany Law Review, 2006
- “Fair Weather Friend of the Court,” WeeklyStandard.com, July 31, 2006
- “Right on the Money,” WeeklyStandard.com, June 28, 2006
- “Secret Mistakes,” The American Spectator Online, June 5, 2006
- “The Truth About Secrets,” WeeklyStandard.com, June 1, 2006
- “Immigration Reform’s Drug Problem,” WeeklyStandard.com, May 19, 2006
- “FDR’s Domestic Surveillance,” The American Spectator, May 9, 2006
- “Schlesinger Fails History,” The American Spectator April 25, 2006
- “Toward the Framers’ Understanding of Advice and Consent: An Historical and Textual Inquiry,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Fall 2005
- “Pryor Convictions,” National Review Online, February 17, 2004"]