Hello friends. I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National

Constitution Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of

constitutional debate. The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.

This week we're sharing an episode from our companion podcast live at the National Constitution Center.

In this episode Robert Post, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School,

explores his highly anticipated volumes from the Oliver Wendell Holmes

devise history of the Supreme Court, the Taft Court making law for a

divided nation, 1921 to 1930. Robert Post explores the history of the Taft Court and the contrasting

constitutional approaches among its justices including Chief Justice Taft,

Louis Brandeis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the infamous James McReynolds.

It was an honor to host this conversation with Robert Post and I can't wait to share it with you.

Enjoy the show.

Friends, I'm so excited and honored tonight to convene a great scholar of constitutional law,

to celebrate a great achievement in American constitutional law and that is the

publication of the Holmes devise volume and it's called the Taft Court Making Law for a Divided Nation.

It's written by Robert Post, a Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School,

where he also served as Yale's Dean with great distinction.

Robert Post has written and edited many path-breaking books,

which I warmly recommend to you, including Citizens Divided a constitutional theory of campaign

finance reform, democracy, expertise, and academic freedom, such a relevant book right now of

First Amendment jurisprudence for the modern state, for the common good principles of American academic freedom, and prejudicial appearance is the logic of American anti-discrimination law.

And since 1988, he has been working on the volume

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