You ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isger and we have

a tremendous podcast for you today. We have a fantastic guest for you today who's going

to talk about progressive slash liberal judicial philosophies in a way that no other guest

has. I'm going to explain them in a way that no other guest has and you're just going

to enjoy every minute of this. Actually, I'm recording the intro just after we recorded

the podcast. I'm giving you a preview of how much I liked it. So let's just not delay

any longer. Sarah, introduce our guest.

I'm so excited. AO listeners will know that I have referred to this guest as my main

intellectual crush on the left, but it might not even just be the left. It might just be

overall legal intellectual crush is here today. It is Professor Achille Amar from Yale

Law School. He is the author of, I mean, he's the author of a lot of books. Let's be clear.

But his most recent book, The Words That Made Us, America's Constitutional Conversation.

A lot of you have asked about podcasts from the left perspective that you should be listening

to. Amarika's Constitution is a fantastic podcast that Professor Amar does and highly,

highly recommended for all the reasons that you're about to find out in this podcast with

him. So welcome, Professor. Thank you very much. And speaking of that, I would love it

if you both came on to my podcast. We can do a home and home and introduce our audiences

to each other.

Done. This is a great plan. So there's so much that we want to talk about. But first,

let's just introduce the audience to how you view yourself on the political spectrum

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