Laws Dimensions: Musing on Law, Politics, and Culture

On the tenth podcast I have Yuval Levin on to talk about his book A Time to Build: From Family and Community To Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to our Institutions can Revive the American Dream. We get into the institutional decay that has distinctly shaped our present political and cultural dilemmas, and what the possible approaches for renewal would look like. You can buy Yuval Levins book here https://www.amazon.com/Time-Build-Community-Recommitting-Institutions/dp/1541699270/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= You can learn more about Yuval Levin here https://www.aei.org/profile/yuval-levin/ As always you can find me on twitter at https://twitter.com/SpitzleyLuke. Support the pod at https://anchor.fm/lawsdimensions/support

On the ninth podcast I have Professor Jonathan Gienapp on to talk about his  book The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era. We get into all the contingencies that went into how America's form of constitutionalism emerged, and why our current common conceptions of the Constitution's ontological categories might be misguided. You can by Professor Gienapp's book here https://www.amazon.com/Second-Creation-American-Constitution-Founding/dp/0674185048 You can learn more about Professor Gienapp here https://history.stanford.edu/people/jonathan-gienapp As always you can find me on twitter at https://twitter.com/SpitzleyLuke. Support the pod at https://anchor.fm/lawsdimensions/support

On the eighth podcast I have Professor Dennis Rasmussen on to talk about his recently released book Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of the Founding Fathers. We get into the fears of the Founding Fathers and how understanding the context of their pessimism can yield new insights into our present moment of political rancor and cynicism. Purchase Professor Rasmussen's book here https://www.amazon.com/Fears-Setting-Sun-Disillusionment-Americas-ebook/dp/B08JHKC3LB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1N1I5CYYYTIKW&dchild=1&keywords=fears+of+a+setting+sun&qid=1633118455&sprefix=fears+o%2Caps%2C183&sr=8-1  You can learn more about Professor Rasmussen here https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/psc/Rasmussen,_Dennis/ As always you can find me on twitter at https://twitter.com/SpitzleyLuke. Support the pod at https://anchor.fm/lawsdimensions/support

On the seventh podcast I have Professor Akhil Reed Amar on to talk about his recently released book The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840. His book is his love letter to America and as you read his book I think you will come to love our nation's founding as well. We get into the weeds of the robust discourse and events that permeated throughout the colonies and eventually shaped them into the country that we all know today. I highly recommend you buy his book to learn more about our creedal origins. You can learn more about Professor Amar here https://law.yale.edu/akhil-reed-amar and here https://akhilamar.com/ As always you can find me on twitter at https://twitter.com/SpitzleyLuke. Support the pod at https://anchor.fm/lawsdimensions/support

On the sixth podcast I have Professor Michael Klarman on to talk about his book The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution. We talk about the political, economic, and social context that surrounded the creation of the Constitution. I firmly believe Professor Klarman's book is indispensable for any scholar or individual interest in the origins of the Constitution. You can find out more about Professor Klarman at https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10481/Klarman As always you can find me on twitter at https://twitter.com/SpitzleyLuke.  Support the pod at https://anchor.fm/lawsdimensions/support

On the fifth podcast I have Kevin Kosar on to talk about why Congress sucks and how we can reform congressional capacity. You can find out more about Kosar's background and his work as a resident scholar at AEI here https://www.aei.org/profile/kevin-r-kosar/ He can be found on twitter here https://twitter.com/kevinrkosar As always you can find me on twitter at https://twitter.com/SpitzleyLuke.  Support the pod at https://anchor.fm/lawsdimensions/support

On our fourth podcast we have Professor Segall on to talk about everything ranging from impeachment to constitutional interpretation. You can learn more about Professor Segall here https://law.gsu.edu/profile/eric-j-segall/ or find his twitter here https://twitter.com/espinsegall As always you can find me on twitter at https://twitter.com/SpitzleyLuke.  Support the pod at https://anchor.fm/lawsdimensions/support

On our third podcast we have Professor Wurman on to talk about his new book The Second Founding, which covers what he believes to be the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. You can learn more about him here https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/3325418 or find his twitter here https://twitter.com/ilan_wurman As always you can find me on twitter at https://twitter.com/SpitzleyLuke.  Support the pod at https://anchor.fm/lawsdimensions/support

In this the second episode of the podcast we embark on our first interview. Apologies for the poor audio, the production value will struggle for the time being, but rest assured eventually the production will get polished. The guest Keith E Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University. Learn more about Professor Whittington hear https://scholar.princeton.edu/kewhitt/home or you can find his twitter handler here https://twitter.com/kewhittington Find me on twitter at https://twitter.com/SpitzleyLuke.  Support the pod at https://anchor.fm/lawsdimensions/support