Jef­frey Rosen is the author of non­fic­tion books, includ­ing the recent Louis D. Bran­deis and William Howard Taft. He is the pres­i­dent and chief exec­u­tive offi­cer of the Nation­al Con­sti­tu­tion Cen­ter, a law pro­fes­sor at George Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty, and a con­tribut­ing edi­tor for The Atlantic. He was pre­vi­ous­ly the legal affairs edi­tor of The New Repub­lic and a staff writer for The New York­er.