At Slate’s new blawg Convictions, Adam White does a nice job trying to make sense of the meanderings of George Will on the subject of judicial power. Adam concludes that “Will’s modified libertarianism is a conservative jurisprudence,” and he may be right. My own sense of the matter is that Will is chiefly reflexive rather than reflective on this front, that he is a certain kind of conservative first and a constitutionalist a distant second. But this is not true only of George Will.