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Has Akhil Reed Amar grown tired of constitutional law? It certainly seems so. The Yale professor burst on the scene in 1998 with The Bill of Rights, a brilliant book that managed a most extraordinary feat: offering a new perspective on one of the most intensely studied texts ever written. But since then, his output has steadily declined in rigor and enthusiasm, and it’s hard to see his latest volume, Born Equal, as anything other than a confession that the story of America’s fundamental law no longer interests him.
Timothy Sandefur is Vice President for Legal Affairs at the Goldwater Institute. His book 'You Don’t Own Me: Individualism and the Culture of Liberty' has just been published by the Cato Institute.
