The Big Equal

Akhil and Andy move from The College of New Jersey - Princeton in the period of America’s Founding - to the Princeton University of today, and discuss matters of agreement and disagreement between Akh...

16 Jun 20212h 6min

Akhil and Andy continue their look around the Ivy League.  Having dispensed with Harvard, Princeton enters their sights, particularly their great early product, James Madison.  Was he truly “the fathe...

9 Jun 20211h 27min

That little-known school in Cambridge, Massachusetts keeps popping up.  Akhil and Andy, objective Yale men as always, look at how Harvard was in the room at the American Revolution’s first stirrings, ...

2 Jun 20211h 25min

For more than 50 years, any discussion of criminal defense attorneys, legal academics, and civil libertarians - as well as staunch advocates for Israel -  included Professor Alan Dershowitz.  Today he...

26 Mai 20211h 11min

Our series on civil liberties, including especially the First Amendment and free speech, continues with perhaps its greatest advocate before the Supreme Court, Floyd Abrams.  It’s natural to assume th...

19 Mai 202159min

In the wake of the publication of The Words That Made Us, Akhil comes full circle, as his first book was The Bill of Rights.  To complete that circle, Professor Nadine Strossen, the youngest person an...

12 Mai 20211h 43min

As Akhil and Andy celebrate the publication this week of The Words That Made Us, Akhil tells a story from the book - the crazy election of 1800 and its just-barely-peaceful transfer of power.  And wha...

6 Mai 20211h 6min

The Biden Commission is in the news, with a mandate to produce ideas on judicial reform, especially at the Supreme Court level.  It just so happens that Akhil has been writing about this for almost 20...

28 Apr 20211h 28min