Basically Random
Our look inside the literary world continues. So many of us are aspiring or perhaps would-be authors, but what is really involved, and can we really join that world? Akhil takes you through the many ...
29 Sep 20211h 20min
Empire of History - Special Guest Gordon S. Wood
It’s fitting that our recent discussion of how authors and their books are realized is followed this week by a discussion with the finest example of a historian, Gordon Wood. We explore his new book,...
22 Sep 20211h 24min
Literary Labyrinth
It’s Constitution Week, and Akhil is “booked;” not only with events of the week, but on his book tour. Our series on scholars, schools, and scholarship resumes, then, with a comprehensive look at the...
15 Sep 20211h 34min
The Ayes and Nays Upon Texas
Texas has brazenly - or boldly, depending on your point of view - thrown down a gauntlet on abortion with their new law purporting to ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. The Supreme...
8 Sep 20211h 43min
A Friendly Judge
Suppose there is a controversial issue of constitutional law. Where does one go for authoritative exposition? We continue what is essentially a discussion of expertise and authority. How do you know...
1 Sep 20211h 34min
Sabermetrics for Lawyers
What do Willie Mays and Laurence Tribe have in common? Andy and Akhil start with an Amar citation from Clarence Thomas in a case last term and branch off into a discussion of scholars’ rankings, the ...
25 Aug 20211h 49min
Confirmation Cacophony
We return to our look at all the sitting Supreme Court justices with the final two - Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. This necessarily involves revisiting the confirmation process, particularly in the...
18 Aug 20211h 36min
Neal Katyal's Life in the Law, Part 2 (Special Guest)
Neal Katyal, now at the peak of the Supreme Court bar, reviews many of the big issues the Supreme Court will face in the new term, as well as some just past. Abortion, affirmative action, and cases i...
13 Aug 20211h 22min
