Episodes
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Education Reform, the Law, and the Problem with Positive Rights
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Richard Epstein examines a recent case about Detroit’s struggling schools in which the Sixth Circuit ruled that students have a ‘right’ to a certain minimal standard of education. Along the way he explains the dangers of courts getting too entangled in the provision of states service, the problem with ‘positive rights’ (and why their application is different at the the state level than the federal), and what more meaningful educational reform would look like.
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Parsing the Biden Agenda
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Richard Epstein reflects on his first run-in with Joe Biden — a stunt the former Vice President intended to derail Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court nomination — and analyzes the policy platform of the de facto Democratic nominee.health carehealth care
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Against ‘Common Good Constitutionalism'
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Recovery and Resilience in a Pandemic
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Richard Epstein considers the legal and economic issues around the government’s management of the Coronavirus.