Laws Dimensions: Musing on Law, Politics, and Culture
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Audio Reflections pertaining to Law, Politics, and Culture. Designed to be episodic forum for further explication of ideas covered or uncovered at lawsdimensions.com Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawsdimensions/support
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Episodes
Episode Ten: Interview with Yuval Levin
January 13, 2022 16:51 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBOn 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/re...
Episode Nine: Interview with Professor Gienapp
October 31, 2021 23:41 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBOn 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 lear...
Episode Eight: Interview with Professor Rasmussen
October 01, 2021 20:04 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBOn 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=1N1I...
Episode Seven: Interview with Professor Amar
May 21, 2021 18:05 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBOn 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 bo...
Episode Six: Interview with Professor Klarman
May 06, 2021 18:54 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBOn 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 a...
Episode Five: Interview with Kevin Kosar
March 11, 2021 21:23 - 52 minutes - 48.7 MBOn 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 --- Support this podcast: https://p...
Episode Four: Interview with Professor Segall
January 15, 2021 19:16 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBOn 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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawsdimensi...
Episode Three: Interview with Professor Wurman
December 16, 2020 20:01 - 48 minutes - 45 MBOn 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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters...
Episode Two: Interview with Professor Whittington
October 09, 2020 17:52 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBIn 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 Fin...
Introductions
August 30, 2020 16:03 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBWelcome to the inaugural episode of Laws Dimensions! Today I get into the purpose and vision of the blog as well as a very succinct narration of my journey to get there. Follow the blog at lawsdimensions.com for new posts and episodes. Find me on twitter at https://twitter.com/SpitzleyLuke. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lawsdimensions/support