We’re going up a day earlier than usual with this week’s (ad-free!) episode, partly because our constantly irregular travel schedules complicated things again, but more importantly to be timely, as John, Lucretia, and I have LOTS of thoughts on the Supreme Court argument yesterday about whether ex-presidents should enjoy broad immunity for any or all acts they took while in office. Lucretia and I think the president does, while John thinks textual support for the proposition is lacking. Lucretia and I respond with an appeal to first principles, and enlist as an expert witness Harvey Mansfield, because of his unique book on the inherent ambivalence of executive power even in a constitutional republic, Taming the Prince. As usual, we fought to a draw.
Our second subject is the ongoing Kristalnacht on campus. There’s not much new to say except to calibrate how cowardly university administrators continue to be, and note that even some liberals, like George Packer in The Atlantic (who provides our article of the week, “The Campus-Left Occupation That Broke Higher Education“) are starting to figure out what conservatives have known about higher education for two generations now. It’s as if no one ever bothered to notice Closing of the American Mind.
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