The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760–1840 by Akhil Reed Amar
By Timothy Sandefur
New York: Basic Books, 2021
817 pp. $22.99 (hardcover)
Decades ago, Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould became a pop culture icon thanks to his entertaining monthly essays on everything from the genetics of hyenas to long-term trends in the batting averages in professional baseball. They made him America’s most popular explainer of evolution, and he even …
