Vanishing Point: In Search of Our Constitutional Future (Paperback)

Legal scholars often speak of “constitutional moments,” flash points when irreconcilable ideals collide and the government faces choices that could reshape the country for generations.

Are we facing our own moment now?

In Vanishing Point, author Edwin Hagenstein explores our troubled political scene by analyzing the work of three prominent Constitutional thinkers: Richard Epstein, Cass Sunstein, and Adrian Vermeule. By contrasting their perspectives, Hagenstein clarifies the path which led to our present impasse and raises the question: how do we proceed from here?

Edwin C. Hagenstein is a writer and editor with long experiences in publishing. He was the lead editor of American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land (Yale University Press, 2011), and author of The Language of Liberty: A Citizen’s Vocabulary (Rootstock Publishing, 2020), winner of an Independent Publishers Book Award. He has also published essays, generally on government, in online publications such as RealClear Public Affairs, The Front Porch Republic, and Minding the Campus. With an interest in woodworking, Hagenstein also wrote Craft in Common: 30 Years at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship (Crow Hill Press, 2023). He lives in northern New Mexico with the artist Helen Byers.