David R. Stras (Minnesota): The New Politics of Judicial Appointments. A review of The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process by Christopher Eisgruber. Cass Sunstein reviews Out of Range: Why the Constitution Can't End the Battle over Guns by Mark V. Tushnet. Robert Dahl reviews The Genius of America: How the Constitution Saved Our Country and Why It Can Do It Again by Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes and A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country by Larry J. Sabato. A review of Broken Government by John Dean. A review of The Squandering of America: How the Failure of our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity by Robert Kuttner. As frustration takes hold in the land of optimism, Americans are beginning to resemble Germans: They are collectively depressed over the Iraq War, the weak dollar and the aging of the baby boomers.
