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I was born ready.

Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger.

We're going to have a relatively coronavirus light podcast today.

We're going to start with a little punditry surrounding coronavirus, answering some political questions.

But we're going to spend the most of our time on issues raised by an essay published by Adrian and published in the Atlantic written by Adrian Vermeule.

That was essentially calling for a revolution in conservative jurisprudence.

It's called beyond originalism.

And what professor Vermeule wants to do is transform conservative jurisprudence from an originalist mindset to what he calls common good constitutionalism.

And this has echoes back to the months long debate last summer over quote unquote David Frenchism.

I still can't believe that was a thing, but was really over everything from civility to classical liberalism itself.

And so we're going to talk about that and why, why originalism?

What is originalism? Why is it worth defending?

And then we're going to roll into believe it or not. It's going to be related. You're going to see that it's related.

We're going to actually talk about what conservatives are starting to increasingly get wrong about masculinity.

I just feel like that's so great because you've been my feminist ally here for the last several months.

Oh, man. And now I get to return the favor and be your masculine ally.

Awesome. I love it. I love it.

Well, let's start with, so if you listen to the dispatch podcast, which we hope you do, we talked a little bit about some of the political ramifications of the coronavirus crisis, including this draft Cuomo sort of idea that

that, Sarah, if I remember right, you were basically saying that's all just nonsense. Like this, there's no real mechanism for that to happen.

Yeah, yeah. It's, there might be political reasons that it's nonsense. Peter Hamby, who I find to be one of the smarter voices out there in media world, he just keeps re-upping this tweet every week that says people who think who are part of the draft Cuomo effort have never met Andrew Cuomo before last week.

But, but set the politics aside because I think great moments can overcome politics, you know, a political past.

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