Amy Woolfson

Amy Woolfson is a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard Law School.

Articles

Government

The USA: Big Country, Big Government?

The USA. To people on the right in the UK, it is sometimes imagined as a libertarian utopia. No EU bureaucrats. None of Ed Miliband’s Green Taxes. Freedom to smoke, drink and own guns. These things are all true to varying extents. But the USA is also home to a surprising amount of protectionism, big government […]

Politics

How New York City replaced one form of campaign corruption with another

Politics in New York City can be grisly: In 1986 Queens Borough President Donald Manes was accused of receiving a $36,000 bribe from a would-be city contractor. Manes was found dead before he could be prosecuted, having apparently stabbed himself in the heart. This, and a host of other scandals, led to calls for reformed […]