Issue: Volume 3, Issue 4

In his 2019 memoir, The Making of a Justice, John Paul Stevens playfully recounted seating arrangements for conferences, the regular meetings of the justices to discuss Supreme Court matters and cases, during his first few terms. Seated to the right of Bill Brennan and to the left of Bill Rehnquist when his turn to speak…

I am grateful to Gautham Rao for the chance to write some recollections of Bernard Bailyn. Can it be said that a nonagenerian passed away suddenly? Well, that is what it felt like—for somehow I assumed that he would always be there, a benign and awesome presence whose shadow fell over the whole of early…