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Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and director of of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, joins us today to talk 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, but the problems extend far beyond just the DEI morass.
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.
