Tipping Back the Scales | Washington Monthly

Steven Teles

March 1, 2009 |

The Washington Monthly

Steven Teles, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and a fellow at the New America Foundation, offers a more rational take in The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement, and in a new article in Studies in American Political Development. However, with Alberto Gonzales’s blank stare lingering in the mind’s eye, Teles’s assessment still sounds quite outlandish: he suggests that the real secret of the movement’s success was its thirst for ideas and intellectual debate.

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