Reverence and Radicalism: Remembering Gordon Wood
The tributes to Gordon Wood have been pouring in, and as promised, we spend this episode with him and his peerless body of work. Professor Steven Calabresi, Gordon’s neighbor, friend, and colleague, ...
19 Juni 1h 22min
Bigotry vs Bureaucracy: State Action and Private Freedom
There’s some highly questionable behavior going on in an area of Missouri, where a fringe group seeks to establish a whites-only enclave. Objectionable? We think so. Unconstitutional? Therein lies...
10 Juni 1h 30min
Rosen on Liberty; Gorsuch on Gorsuch - with Jeffrey Rosen and Justice Neil Gorsuch
It is an honor to introduce the initial episode of our new sister podcast: The Blessings of Liberty, hosted by Jeffrey Rosen, president emeritus of the National Constitution Center and Professor of La...
3 Juni 1h 17min
Unrehearsed Answers
It’s time for listener questions, and no surprise that current events are on everyone’s mind. We range from the supposed weaponization slush fund, to pardons; illegal military orders; simultaneous o...
27 Maj 54min
Scrip for Scripture on the National Mall
After weeks of tracing the background history and constitutional principles at work on religious establishment, free exercise, and equality issues, the Administration on cue sponsors, holds, staffs, a...
20 Maj 1h 22min
JFK's Wall
Our journey through the centuries of religious practice, attitudes, and constitutionalism has reached the 20th century, when several presidential elections set mileposts for the American religious deb...
13 Maj 1h 13min
Fourteen Colonies, Ten Commandments
As the 10 commandments case makes its way towards the Supreme Court, we add another chapter to our study of the historical events and factors that went into the American constitutional tradition when ...
6 Maj 1h 35min
Remember the Alamo Heights
We continue to trace the historical origins of the constitution’s approach to religion in American government and American life. We take you on a tour around Europe at the time of the Reformation and...
29 Apr 1h 40min
