Losing our religion

Law professor Ryan Doerfler on our misplaced faith in the Constitution, the failures of American institutions, and what reform might look like in the future

Is the Constitution broken beyond repair?

That’s the argument legal scholar Ryan Doerfler and his collaborator Samuel Moyn (who we talked to last summer) made in a provocative New York Times article. Like many progressive thinkers, they question not just the document’s antidemocratic mechanisms, but — like their fellow scholar Aziz Rana — whether America…