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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Ilya Shapiro |Mark Pulliam |Amy Swearer |David Goldman
Ilya Shapiro’s book is an eye-opening account of wokeness in the legal academy. Legal academia has been long overdue for a book-length critique, and Ilya Shapiro’s Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elitesdelivers—released just as Trump’s election victory appears to signal a turning of the tide on wokeness.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Titus Techera |Daniel Mahoney |Paul Moreno |Ilya Shapiro
January 29, 2025 In thought and action alike, Roger Scruton worked tirelessly to defend freedom in the highest sense of the word. Roger Scruton became himself as a thinker and a man at about the same time, in 1980. That year, he published his third book, his most important political book, The Meaning of Conservatism.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Helen Dale |Tyler Hummel |Paul Moreno |Ilya Shapiro
Many of the world’s worst ideas come from the United States. Critical race theory and affirmative action, for example, are all-American. Even when bad ideas lack American origins, US academics manage to execute hostile takeovers of (say) French nonsense like postmodernism or queer theory early on in proceedings. This is then exported in over-simplified form to the rest of the world, to other countries’ considerable detriment.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Max J. Prowant |Richard Kraemer |Ilya Shapiro |Reuven Brenner
On November 24, 2024, Romanian voters sent two outsider politicians—one being the nationalist provocateur Călin Georgescu—into a Presidential run-off, scheduled for December 8. Yet days before the second round, Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the election results based on a report from the country’s intelligence community. Their findings implied that Russia was behind a massive disinformation campaign via TikTok.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Mark Dooley |Daniel Mahoney |Ilya Shapiro |Reuven Brenner
January 22, 2025 Roger Scruton’s philosophical work is nothing if not spiritual. I still recall how Roger Scruton poignantly smiled at me as I left his fabled Sunday Hill Farm a few weeks before he died. We often met there but, on that occasion, I had a particular mission in traveling to Wiltshire. As his literary executor, we were to discuss his legacy in light of his illness.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Ilya Shapiro |James Patterson |Emina Melonic
with Ilya Shapiro, hosted by James M. Patterson A poorly worded tweet became a career-altering conflagration for Ilya Shapiro in a particularly egregious example of cancel culture. It prompted him to take a hard look at the state of legal education, which he now skewers in Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elite. He and host James Patterson discuss the book, the atrocious impact critical theory and DEI has had on our law schools, and what the future might hold.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
reason.com | Ilya Shapiro
Politics CRT gets all the attention, but this less-sexy part is equally important—if not more so. | As I wrote on Monday in my introduction to Lawless, the crisis in higher-ed is different than the decades-old complaint about the liberal takeover of the academy.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
city-journal.org | Ilya Shapiro |Noam Josse
The post-October 7 conflict on U.S. campuses has been framed as a battle between free speech and hate speech. Anti-Israel protesters claim that universities are stifling their right to expression, while many Jewish and other pro-Israel students respond that “pro-Palestinian” activism has led to violence, intimidation, and a general disruption of educational programs—and they note as well that before October 7, universities had often censored politically incorrect speech. This framing is mistaken.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
manhattan.institute | Ilya Shapiro
Broadside Books 2025 ISBN: 0063336588 In the past, Columbia Law School produced leaders like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Now, it produces window-smashing activists.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
reason.com | Ilya Shapiro
Politics You can’t have legal education dominated by an ideology that denies the law’s legitimacy. | Yesterday I laid out my how my personal experience led me to "do the work" and write Lawless. That research uncovered some disturbing differences from when I was in law school in the early 2000s.
