Amy Gutmann

We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. But is this common-law mindset suitable also in statutory and constitutional interpretation? Justice Scalia answers this question with a resounding negative....

In The Spirit of Compromise, eminent political thinkers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson connect the rejection of compromise to the domination of campaigning over governing - the permanent campaign - in American democracy today....

Written by one of America's leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics....