Originally broadcast at 10:45 EDT Monday, August 17, 2020.
Jeffrey Rosen discusses the “Fourth Battle for the Constitution” in this current political moment.
Rosen is the president and CEO for the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate the public about the U.S. Constitution. The center recently launched, in partnership with The Atlantic, a new project called “The Battle for the Constitution.”
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Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Tuesday, August 18, 2020.
In Martha Jones’ second time at Chautauqua this season, she discusses the Nineteenth Amendment.
Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at The Johns Hopkins University, and a legal and...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday, August 19, 2020.
Cato Institute Chairman Robert A. Levy traces the erosion of the Constitution’s original intent.
Levy is chairman of the board of directors at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C., which he joined as ...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, August 20, 2020.
Emily Bazelon on mass incarceration and how to change the prosecution system.
Bazelon is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. She is the bes...