This classic format edition of the Power Line podcast features me in conversation with Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and director of of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, about his timely new book, Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites.
While America’s judiciary has moved to the right in recent years along with the revival of constitutional originalism, our law schools, always left of center, have been moving steadily further to left. Shapiro is himself a victim of a campus inquisition at the hands of the Diversity Industrial Complex, having endured the woke mob firsthand when he posted a controversial tweet that led to calls for his firing from Georgetown Law. A four-month investigation eventually cleared him on a technicality but declared that if he offended anyone in the future, he’d create a “hostile educational environment” and be subject to the inquisition again. Unable to do the job he was hired for, he resigned.
The problem goes beyond mere wokery and the DEI abyss. He explores how the illiberal takeover of legal education is transforming our country, and why, unless we stop it soon, the consequences will be with us for decades.
In addition to reviewing some aspects of his book, we also coax an origin story out of him, as Ilya grew up in the old Soviet Union and in 1980 immigrated with his parents first to Canada, and then ultimately to the United States.
So listen here, or from our hosts at iHeartRadio (where you should subscribe).
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