Public Writings

I write for a general audience about a range of issues relating to American constitutional history, politics and law, including impeachments, presidential power, free speech, constitutional crisis, judicial review, originalism, and judicial appointments. I'm now a regular contributor to The Volokh Conspiracy, hosted by Reason magazine.

I am the host of The Academic Freedom Podcast. Subscribe through your favorite podcasting platform or listen online at the Academic Freedom Alliance website.

Public statements issued on behalf of the Academic Freedom Alliance can be found here.

 

You Can't Teach That! The Battle over University Classrooms (London: Polity, 2024). Buy It!

Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018).  Buy It!

                  For Extended Media Discussions of Speak Freely visit the Speak Freely Webpage

"Commander in Chains? Seven Scenarios from a Pardon to a Prison-Yard Presidency" Reason (April 2024)

"What if a Candidate or President-Elect is Incapacitated?" Reason (April 2024)

"Impeachment and the Rule of Law," Society for the Rule of Law (March 8, 2024) Watch Online

"Political Solidarity Statements Threaten Academic Freedom," Chronicle of Higher Education (January 26, 2024) Read Online

"On Campus Speech, We Need a Return to First Principles," The Dispatch (December 13, 2023) Read Online

      Reprinted at FedSoc Blog

"Free Speech, Political Speech, and Hate Speech on Campus," Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (December 12, 2023) Watch Online

"Colleges Can Recommit to Free Speech or Double-Down on Sensitivity," Chronicle of Higher Education (December 7, 2023) Read Online

"The Freedom to Assign Controversial Books," Academe Blog (August 30, 2023) Read Online

"Bad Faith Constitutionalism," Balkinization (May 17, 2023) Read Online

"Academic Freedom and Higher Education Reform," with Christopher Rufo at Stanford University (May 3, 2023) Watch Online

"My Testimony on the North Dakota Tenure Reform Bill," Volokh Conspiracy (March 10, 2023) Read Online

"DeSantis's Terrifying Plot Against Higher Ed," Chronicle of Higher Education (February 27, 2023) Read Online

"Higher Education 'Reform' in Florida," Volokh Conspiracy (February 25, 2023) Read Online

"Instant Karma's Going to Get You: Should Conservatives Worry about Breaking the Norm of Political Non-Interference with State Universities?" Volokh Conspiracy (February 2, 2023) Read Online

"The Latest DeSantis Higher Ed Reform Proposals," Volokh Conspiracy (January 31, 2023) Read Online

"Say It Loud," The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg (January 26, 2023) Listen Online

"Gutting Tenure Protections in North Dakota?," Volokh Conspiracy (January 26, 2023) Read Online

"Academic Freedom for Whom?," The Dispatch (January 25, 2023) Read Online

"Hamline Takes Quashing Academic Freedom to a Whole New Level," The Dispatch (January 6, 2023) Read Online

"Doing Pickering Balancing Right," Volokh Conspiracy (December 29, 2022) Read Online

"Can Professors Be Sanctioned for Political Flyers?," Volokh Conspiracy (December 20, 2022) Read Online

"What Kind of Democracy? Symposium on Peter Shane's Democracy's Chief Executive," Notice & Comment: Yale Journal on Regulation (October 28, 2022) Read Online

"Abortion, Classroom Discussion, and the University of Idaho," Volokh Conspiracy (September 26, 2022) Read Online

"Florida All in for Assault on Academic Freedom," Volokh Conspiracy (September 26, 2022) Read Online

"A Section Three Disqualification," Volokh Conspiracy (September 6, 2022) Read Online

"North Carolina Supreme Court Makes a Bold Move," Volokh Conspiracy (August 19, 2022) Read Online

"Can University-Run Social Media Accounts Block You?," Volokh Conspiracy (August 18, 2022) Read Online

"The Evolution of the First Amendment" We the People Podcast from the National Constitution Center (February 10, 2022) Listen Online

"Previewing the Challenge U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn's Candidacy," WFAE Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins (February 1, 2022) Listen Online

"Academic Freedom Cannot Make an Exception for Hate Speech," Philadelphia Inquirer (January 26, 2022) Read Online

"Should the Supreme Court be Reformed," We the People Podcast from the National Constitution Center (December 17, 2021) Listen Online

"Leader of the Pack," The Remnant Podcast with Jonah Goldberg (December 15, 2021) Listen Online

"The Intellectual Freedom that Made Public Colleges Great is Under Threat," Washington Post (December 15, 2021) Read Online

"Court Packing is Discreditable as Ever," Wall Street Journal (Decembert 10, 2021) Read Online

"Virtual 26th Annual Frankel Lecture on Academic Freedom and Discrimination in a Polarizing Time," Keynote by Jeannie Suk Gersen and responses by me and Khlara Bridges (November 19, 2021) Watch Online

"A Faculty First-Aid Kit for Your Free Speech Crisis," with Donald A. Downs and Robert P. George, Chronicle of Higher Education (October 4, 2021) Read Online

"Tenure Rules at the University System of Georgia," Volokh Conspiracy (October 4, 2021) Read Online

"The College Educators Behind the Push to Speak Freely on Campus," WBUR On Point (September 28, 2021) Listen Online

"A Good Statement on Faculty Speech from Syracuse," Volokh Conspiracy (September 14, 2021) Read Online

"University Presidents and Campus Speech Controversies," Volokh Conspiracy (September 8, 2021) Read Online

"Can You Talk About the Mask Policy in the Classroom?," Volokh Conspiracy (August 11, 2021) Read Online

"Eviction Moratoria and Nondelegation," Volokh Conspiracy (August 2, 2021) Read Online

"Banning 'Critical Race Theory' Would be Bad for Conservatives Too," Washington Post (June 30, 2021) Read Online

"The Trouble with Banning Critical Race Theory," Areo (June 16, 2021) Read Online

"We Have Criticized Nikole Hannah-Jones. Her Tenure Denial is a Travesty. Political Intervention in Hiring Will Badly Damage Higher Ed." Chronicle of Higher Education (May 24, 2021) Read Online

"Episode 89: Fighting for Faculty Freedom," Tea for Two Podcast with Iona Italia (May 16, 2021) Listen Online

"A Conversation on Free Speech on College Campuses: Regents' Cup 2021 Keynote Address," Arizona Board of Regents Regents' Cup (April 24, 2021) Watch Online

"Ulrich Baer and Keith Whittington Debate Whether Free Speech on Campus is the Right Ideal," LeFrak Forum at Michigan State University (April 13, 2021) Watch Online

"Freedom and Wokeness on Campus," The Open Mind (April 12, 2021) Watch Online

"When the Mob Comes for the Professors, the Academic Freedom Alliance Comes to the Rescue: A Conversation with Keith Whittington," The Unspeakable Podcast (March 29, 2021) Listen Online

"Ep. 132 Academic Freedom Alliance with Keith Whittington," So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast (March 25, 2021) Listen Online

"How Free is Speech on the American College Campus?" Shaping Opinion Podcast (March 22, 2021) Listen Online

"Free Speech is under Threat on College Campuses. Here's How to Fight Back," National Review Online (March 18, 2021) Read Online

"The Academic Freedom Alliance: A Q&A with Keith Whittington," Academe Blog (March 17, 2021) Read Online

"Academic Freedom Alliance: Q&A with Keith Whittington," Princetonians for Free Speech (March 8, 2021) Read Online

"Liberty Matters Author Interview: Keith E. Whittington," Online Library of Liberty (April 6, 2021) Watch Online

"John C. Calhoun, Constituttionalism, and Slavery," Liberty Matters (March 2021) Read Online

"Speaking Power to Truth," Claremont Review of Books 21:1 (Winter 2020/21): 81-83. Read Online

"Ted Cruz on Impeachment Trials of Former Officers," Volokh Conspiracy (February 10, 2021) Read Online

"What is the Purpose of a Senate Impeachment Trial?" Washington Times (February 9, 2021) Read Online

"Impeachment 101 with Professor Whittington," The Trey Gowdy Podcast (February 9, 2021) Listen Online

"Preview of Donald Trump's Second Impeachment Trial," WOSU All Sides with Ann Fisher (February 8, 2021) Listen Online

"Yes, the Senate Can Try Trump," Wall Street Journal (January 22, 2021) Read Online

"Can a Former President Be Tried for Impeachment?" National Constitution Center We the People podcast (January 21, 2021) Listen Online

"Supreme Myths Episode 22," Supreme Myths Podcast with Eric Segall (January 21, 2021) Watch Online

"Is There a Free Speech Defense to an Impeachment?," Lawfare (January 19, 2021) Read Online

"When is an Officer Impeached? V," Volokh Conspiracy (January 16, 2021) Read Online

"Can a Former President Be Impeached and Convicted?" Lawfare (January 15, 2021) Read Online

Contra the Luttig Impeachment Thread," Volokh Conspiracy (January 15, 2021) Read Online

"There Is Still Time to Fix the House Impeachment Process," Volokh Conspiracy (January 15, 2021) Read Online

"The Fourteenth Amendment Disqualification Gambit," Volokh Conspiracy (January 13, 2021) Read Online

"The Whittington Standard," The Remnant Podcast with Jonah Goldberg (January 12, 2021) Listen Online

"The Conservative Case for Impeaching Trump Now," Washington Post (January 7, 2021) Read Online

"Impeach and Remove," Volokh Conspiracy (January 6, 2021) Read Online

"Why Does Congress Count the Electoral Votes?," The Constitutionalist (January 6, 2021) Read Online

"Counting Ballots and Stealing Elections," Lawfare (January 5, 2021) Read Online

"GOP Politicians and the Presidential Electors Suit," Volokh Conspiracy (December 11, 2020) Read Online

"How War Powers Eclipsed Constitutional Design," Law & Liberty (December 8, 2020) Read Online

"Trump Scheme for State Legislatures to Overturn the Election Won't Work," Washington Post (November 20, 2020) Read Online

"A Phased Transition to Inauguration," Volokh Conspiracy (November 9, 2020) Read Online

"State Legislatures Should Stay Out of the Presidential Contest," Volokh Conspiracy (November 7, 2020) Read Online

"The Day After: Key Election Questions and Where We Are Now," Princeton University Faculty Conversation (November 4, 2020) Watch Online

"The Inescapable Pull of Our Unsatisfying Electoral College," The New Rambler (November 2, 2020) Read Online

"How would Justice Amy Coney Barrett Rule on Roe v. Wade? Constitutional Scholar Weighs In," CBSN (October 28, 2020) Watch Online

"Why the Supreme Court Has Nine Justices," Newsweek (October 21, 2020) Read Online

"Don't Be So Sure a Justice Barrett Would Overturn Roe," New York Times (October 12, 2020) Read Online

"Circuit Court Nominations and Senate Obstruction," Volokh Conspiracy (October 12, 2020) Read Online

"Freedom of Thought and the Struggle to End Slavery," Constitution Day Lecture, Princeton University (September 15, 2020) Watch Online

"The Legal Theories of Amy Coney Barrett, Explained," Vox (September 24, 2020) Read Online

"Going Rogue," Volokh Conspiracy (September 2, 2020) Read Online

"Chipping Away at Academic Freedom," Real Clear Politics (August 23, 2020) Read Online

"Auburn and Extramural Speech: An Update," Volokh Conspiracy (August 8, 2020) Read Online

"Extramural Speech at Auburn," Volokh Conspiracy (August 3, 2020) Read Online

"Academics and Open Letters," Volokh Conspiracy (July 31, 2020) Read Online

"Federalism and Law and Order," Volokh Conspiracy (July 23, 2020) Read Online

"Lame Duck Appointments? We've Had a Few," Volokh Conspiracy (July 17, 2020) Read Online

"Time to Amend the Presidential Pardon Power," Lawfare (July 14, 2020) Read Online

"What Are the Limits of Federal Power During a Pandemic?" Federalist Society POLICYbrief (July 1, 2020) Watch Online

"Pandemics and Economic Loss: Should Government Compensate Citizens?" Federalist Society POLICYbrief (June 17, 2020) Watch Online

"Trump Says the Supreme Court Would Allow a 'Very Powerful Flag-Burning Statute.' He's Wrong," Monkey Cage Blog at the Washington Post (June 3, 2020) Read Online

"Pandemics and First Principles: Local v. Federal Responses to Pandemics," Federalist Society POLICYbrief (June 3, 2020) Watch Online

"Emergency Orders Can't Last Forever," Volokh Conspiracy (May 30, 2020) Read Online

"Does Faculty Ideological Diversity Matter?" Institute for Humane Studies (May 28, 2020) Watch Online

"A Libertarian Caught in a Pandemic," Policy Punchline (May 12, 2020) Listen Online

"What's at Stake as Colorado Argues Faithless Electors Case Before the U.S. Supreme Court," KUNC's Colorado Edition (May 12, 2020) Listen Online

"The Faithless Electors Case," Volokh Conspiracy (May 12, 2020) Read Online

Charles Moscowitz, The Constitution and the Pandemic (May 1, 2020) Watch Online

"Total Authority," Volokh Conspiracy (April 14, 2020) Read Online

"Common Good Constitutionalism?" Volokh Conspiracy (March 31, 2020) Read Online

"Nondelegation Doctrine and Quarantine Orders," Volokh Conspiracy (March 24, 2020) Read Online

"Just Send the Checks," Volokh Conspiracy (March 20, 2020) Read Online

"Is It Paternalism to Protect You from the Plague?" Volokh Conspiracy (March 20, 2020) Read Online

"Can You Be a Libertarian in a Pandemic?" Volokh Conspiracy (March 16, 2020) Read Online

"Can the Government Just Close My Favorite Bar?" Volokh Conspiracy (March 16, 2020) Read Online

"Are There Any Red Lines in a Hyperpartisan World?" Volokh Conspiracy (March 7, 2020) Read Online

"Whittington's Wisdom," The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg (February 27, 2020) Listen Online

"The House Impeachment Process," Volokh Conspiracy (February 10, 2020) Read Online

"The House Impeachment: A Postmortem," Lawfare (February 6, 2020) Read Online

"How Trump's Impeachment Trial Could Set New Precedent," NPR All Things Considered (February 2, 2020) Listen Online

"Lack of Impeachment Witnesses is Departure from Historical Precedent," NBC News Now (January 31, 2020) Watch Online

"People Who Want Chief Justice Roberts to Call Witnesses Should Prepare to be Disappointed," with Ira Goldman, Monkey Cage Blog at the Washington Post (January 31, 2020) Read Online

"Acquit If You Must, But Don't Endorse the Dershowitz Argument," Volokh Conspiracy (January 30, 2020) Read Online

"The Senate is Likely to Acquit Trump. It Should Still Reject Dershowitz's Logic," Washington Post (January 30, 2020) Read Online

"Republican Senators Argue Over Definition of Impeachable Offenses," NBC News Now (January 29, 2020) Watch Online

"Does an Impeachment Overturn an Election?" Volokh Conspiracy (January 23, 2020) Read Online

"The Chief Justice Shall Preside," Volokh Conspiracy (January 22, 2020) Read Online

"ERA Now?" Volokh Conspiracy (January 15, 2020) Read Online

When is an Officer Impeached? IV" Volokh Conspiracy (December 22, 2019) Read Online

When is an Officer Impeached? III" Volokh Conspiracy (December 21, 2019) Read Online

"When is an Officer Impeached? II" Volokh Conspiracy (December 20, 2019) Read Online

"When is an Officer Impeached?" Volokh Conspiracy (December 20, 2019) Read Online

"Who Decides These Things?" Volokh Conspiracy (December 19, 2019) Read Online

"Trump's Scary Precedent: Scorning Congress," New York Times (December 19, 2019) Read Online

"Lindsey Graham, Elizabeth Warren, and the Impeachment Trial Oath," Volokh Conspiracy (December 16, 2019) Read Online

"Can the House Impeach a Former President?" Volokh Conspiracy (December 5, 2019) Read Online

"Must Impeachable Offenses Be Violations of the Criminal Code?" Lawfare (November 19, 2019) Read Online

"The Dangerous Precedent of Trump's Obstruction of Congressional Oversight," The Atlantic (October 14, 2019) Read Online

"Trump is Creating the Worst Constitutional Crisis in 150 Years," Los Angeles Times (October 10, 2019) Read Online

"Must the House Vote to Authorize an Impeachment Inquiry?" Lawfare (October 9, 2019) Read Online

"Are We In a Constitutional Crisis Yet? Thirteen Legal Experts Respond," Vox (October 9, 2019) Read Online

"And Then the President Asked to be Impeached," Volokh Conspiracy (October 8, 2019) Read Online

"Impeachment Isn't Mandatory -- Even if Trump Committed Impeachable Offenses," Washington Post (September 26, 2019) Read Online

"Is a Senate Impeachment Trial Optional?," Niskanen Center (September 25, 2019) Read Online

"Hating on Congress: An American Tradition," Gallup Blog (July 30, 2019) Read Online

"Academic Freedom, Even for Amy Wax," Academe Blog (July 28, 2019) Read Online

"Mueller Hearings Another Summer Movie Disappointment," Volokh Conspiracy (July 24, 2019) Read Online

"A New Database of Cases Reviewing the Constitutionality of Federal Laws," Balkinization (June 28, 2019) Read Online

"A Political History of Judicial Review," Balkinization (June 19, 2019) Read Online

"Alan Dershowitz is Wrong about Impeachments," Lawfare (June 3, 2019) Read Online

"How Often Has the U.S. Supreme Court Upheld a Federal Law?" Volokh Conspiracy (June 3, 2019) Read Online

"Should We Care about College Commencement Speakers?" Volokh Conspiracy (May 29, 2019) Read Online

"How Often Has the U.S. Supreme Court Struck Down a Federal Law? Part II" Volokh Conspiracy (May 28, 2019) Read Online

"How Often Has the U.S. Supreme Court Struck Down a Federal Law?" Volokh Conspiracy (May 24, 2019) Read Online

"A New History of Judicial Review," Volokh Conspiracy (May 24, 2019) Read Online

"The Call for Impeachment Intensifies," WHYY Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane (May 22, 2019) Listen Online

"Are We in a Constitutional Crisis?," National Constitution Center We the People Podcast (May 16, 2019) Listen Online

"How Do We Know if We're in a Constitutional Crisis? 11 Experts Explain," Vox (May 16, 2019) Read Online

"How Trump Will Weaken the Presidency," Lawfare (May 16, 2019) Read Online

"The Skewed Line-Up of Commencement Speakers," Volokh Conspiracy (May 16, 2019) Read Online

"Checking the Checks and Balances," WNYC The Takeaway with Tanzina Vega (May 9, 2019) Listen Online

"Wishing for a Constitutional Crisis," Volokh Conspiracy (May 9, 2019) Read Online

"Should the House Impeach if the Senate Won't Convict?" Lawfare (May 8, 2019) Read Online

"John Stuart Mill's Big Idea: Harsh Critics Make Good Thinkers," Big Think (May 8, 2019) Watch Online

"The Commencement Speaker Shuffle," Volokh Conspiracy (May 7, 2019). Read Online

"Can the Roberts Court Save Donald Trump from an Impeachment?" Volokh Conspiracy (April 24, 2019) Read Online

"Reckoning with the Mueller Report, Volume Two," Niskanen Center (April 23, 2019) Read Online

"Reckoning with the Mueller Report, Volume One," Niskanen Center (April 22, 2019) Read Online

Sean Illing, "Does the Mueller Report Exonerate Trump? I Asked 12 Experts," Vox (April 20, 2019) Read Online

"About That Campus Free Speech Executive Order," Volokh Conspiracy (March 26, 2019) Read Online

"First Impressions on the Mueller Report," Volokh Conspiracy (March 24, 2019) Read Online

"The Electoral College is Just OK," Volokh Conspiracy (March 22, 2019) Read Online

"Madison Wept," Volokh Conspiracy (March 13, 2019) Read Online

"He's Just Not Worth It," Volokh Conspiracy (March 12, 2019) Read Online

"James Madison on Abuse and Usurpation," Volokh Conspiracy (March 7, 2019) Read Online

"Securing Free Speech on Campus, Part II," Volokh Conspiracy (March 6, 2019) Read Online

"Securing Free Speech on Campus, Part I," Volokh Conspiracy (March 5, 2019) Read Online

"When is Impeachment the Right Remedy?," Lawfare (March 4, 2019) Read Online

"Reconstructing American Politics," Volokh Conspiracy (March 2, 2019) Read Online

"Vandals at the Gates," Volokh Conspiracy (February 28, 2019) Read Online

Sean Illing, "Trump Declared a National Emergency at the Border. I asked 11 experts if it's legal," Vox (February 15, 2019) Read Online

"Protecting Extramural Speech," Academe Blog (February 15, 2019) Read Online

"Academic Freedom and the Scope of Protections for Extramural Speech," Academe (January-February 2019) Read Online

"Here's the Simple Reason Why It's So Hard to Abolish Lame-Duck Legislative Sessions," MarketWatch (December 11, 2018) Read Online

"Power Grab or Business as Usual?" National Review Online (December 10, 2018) Read Online

"Free Speech is a Core Tenet of the Academy. College Trustees Really Ought to Know That," Chronicle of Higher Education (December 5, 2018) Read Online

"Professor Spreads Free Speech Message on Constitution Day," Fox & Friends (September 17, 2018) Watch Online

"Everyone Gets 'Constitutional Crisis' Wrong," CNN Politics (September 7, 2018) Watch Online

"The Dream of a Nonpartisan Supreme Court," Princeton University Press Blog (September 6, 2018) Read Online

“Should Congress Treat Impeachable Offenses Cumulatively?,” Lawfare (August 29, 2018) Read Online

"Anthony Kennedy's Supreme Court Legacy: Support for Both Flag-Burners and Citizens United," MarketWatch (June 28, 2018) Read Online

"Campus Protests Should Stop at the Door of the Classroom," Aeon (June 20, 2018) Read Online

"The Problem with Zombie Constitutional Amendments," Harvard Law Review Blog (June 6, 2018) Read Online

"Can Trump Actually Pardon Himself? Experts Weigh In," The Guardian (June 4, 2018) Read Online

"Free Speech and Ideological Diversity on American College Campuses," Open Inquiry Project (May 2018) Read Online

"A Survey of Constitutional Debates in the Trump Era," National Constitution Center Town Hall (May 7, 2018) Watch Online

"Don't Subpoena Testimony from the President," Lawfare (May 4, 2018) Read Online

"Checking the President," No Jargon Podcast Episode 126 (April 25, 2018) Podcast

"Tolerating Campus Dissent, Left and Right," Princeton University Press Blog (April 25, 2018) Read Online

"R.I.P. Congressional War Power," Lawfare (April 20, 2018) Read Online

"The Bounded Rationality of American Courts," New York University Law Review Online (2018) Read Online

"The Kids are Alright," Princeton University Press Blog (March 20, 2018) Read Online

Sean Illing, "Can Mueller Force Trump to Testify? I Asked 9 Legal Experts," Vox (March 15, 2018) Read Online

"Offensive Speech in the Classroom," Academe Blog (March 11, 2018) Read Online

"Departmentalism, Judicial Supremacy, and DACA," Lawfare (February 26, 2018) Read Online

"President Trump, #MeToo, and Congressional Power," Harvard Law Review Blog (February 20, 2018) Read Online

"History of Impeachment from Andrew Johnson to Today," National Constitution Center's We the People (February 1, 2018) Podcast

"Partisanship, Norms, and Federal Judicial Appointments," Balkinization (November 29, 2017) Read Online

"Congress and the Administrative State," Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention (November 17, 2017) View Online

"Does the First Amendment Protect Hate Speech on Campus and Online?" National Constitution Center's America's Town Hall (November 8, 2017) View Online

"To Impeach or Not To Impeach," Talk Like a Girl Episode 2 (October 2017) Podcast

"Hate Speech and the First Amendment," National Constitution Center's We the People (September 28, 2017) Podcast

"Trump's Rhetoric is Offensive, but is it an Impeachable Offense?" Vox: Mischiefs of Faction (August 4, 2017) Read Online

"The Power to Impeach Executive Officers," Lawfare (August 4, 2017) Read Online

"Possibly Impeachable Offenses: The Need for Congressional Investigation" Niskanen Center (August 2, 2017) Read Online

"What is the Downside of Not Impeaching?" Lawfare (July 25, 2017) Read Online

"The Coming Constiutional Crisis?" Lawfare (July 21, 2017) Read Online

Sean Illing, "President Trump is Considering Pardoning Himself. I Askef 15 Experts if that's Legal," Vox (July 21, 2017) Read Online

Sean Illing, "Trump's Lawyer: Comey Violated Executive Privilege. 10 Legal Experts: No, He Didn't," Vox (June 9, 2017) Read Online

"Constitutional Crisis? Take a Deep Breath," Decode DC episode 196 (June 1, 2017) Podcast

"He's Not Going to Be Impeached," We the People episode 90 (May 25, 2017) Podcast

"So What Exactly Counts as an Impeachable Offense?," Washington Post: Monkey Cage (May 24, 2017) Read Online

"Impeachment" NPR's All Sides with Amy Fisher (May 23, 2017) Audio Interview

"How Likely is a Trump impeachment?" CGTN (May 23, 2017) Video Interview

"What is the Impeachment Power For?," Law and Liberty (May 22, 2017) Read Online

"How To Get Out of Impeachment Territory," Lawfare (May 19, 2017) Read Online

"Will the 25th Amendment Save Us? Lessons from the Nation's First Impeachment Trial," Vox: Mischiefs of Faction (May 18, 2017) Read Online

"How Does Impeachment Work?" The Atlantic (May 17, 2017) Read Online

"A Constitutional Crisis May Not Be What You Think It Is" Newsy (May 17, 2017) Video Interview

"An Impeachment Should Not Be a Partisan Affair," Lawfare (May 16, 2017) Read Online

Dylan Matthews, "I Asked 7 Experts If the Comey Firing Is a Constitutional Crisis, Here's What They Said," Vox (May 11, 2017) Read Online

"Is the Supreme Court a Court?" Law and Liberty (February 23, 2017) Read Online

"Constitutional Norms Matter," Law and Liberty (February 16, 2017) Read Online

"Departmentalism, Judicial Supremacy, and Trump," Balkinization (February 15, 2017) Read Online

Dylan Matthews, "I Asked 8 Experts If We're In a Constitutional Crisis, Here's What They Said" Vox (February 13, 2017) Read Online

"Interpretation of Impeachment Clause," with Neil Kinkopf, National Constitution Center Interactive Constitution (2016) Read Online

"Balancing Independence and Accountability in Impeachable Offenses," National Constitution Center Interactive Constitution (2016) Read Online

"Making the Bricks of the Modern Presidency from Constitutional Straw" Law and Liberty (January 4, 2016) Read Online

Judicial Review and Constitutional Politics (Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 2015) Purchase Here

"Our Regional Constitution" Wall Street Journal (June 3, 2015) Read Online

"Paradise Lost" Law and Liberty (June 2, 2015) Read Online

"Are Signing Statements a Bad Thing?" Law and Liberty (April 28, 2014) Read Online

"Remembering Why Hayek Mattered" Law and Liberty (April 26, 2014) Read Online

"What's Wrong with Judicial Activism Anyway?" Law and Liberty (April 21, 2014) Read Online

"One of the 'Most Activist Judges We Have Right Now'" Law and Liberty (April 10, 2014) Read Online

"Is the Roberts Court the Least Activist Court in History" Law and Liberty (April 8, 2014) Read Online

"Constitutional Politics in the States" Law and Liberty (April 6, 2014) Read Online

"Sowing the Seeds of an Originalist Future" Law and Liberty (April 6, 2014) Read Online

"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Substantive Due Process -- Sort Of" Law and Liberty (April 4, 2014) Read Online

"What Did John Marshall Accomplish in Marbury v. Madison" Law and Liberty (April 2, 2014) Read Online

"Is the Constitution a Cage?" David Aldrich Nelson Lecture at Texas A&M University (2013) View Online

"The Troubling Case of Lochner" Law and Liberty (March 1, 2012) Read Online

"The Conquering Bureaucracy" Reason (December 2010) Read Online

"Originalism within the Living Constitution" American Constitution Society Issue Brief (July 2007) Read Online

"How to Read the Constitution: Self-Government and the Jurisprudence of Originalism" Heritage Foundation First Principles Series (May 1, 2006) Read Online

"Bogus Balance Banter" National Review Online (August 10, 2005) Read Online

"The Confirmation Process We Deserve" Policy Review (June 1, 2001) Read Online

"'High Crimes' After Clinton" Policy Review (February 1, 2000) Read Online

"Not-So-Grand Inquests" Reason (January 2000) Read Online

"The Politics of the Supreme Court" Policy Review (August 1, 2000) Read Online

"Serving the President: When Must the President Obey a Subpoena?" Reason (November 1998) Read Online

"When is a Crime a 'High Crime'?" Chicago Tribune (September 13, 1998) Read Online