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🗓️ 22 January 2019
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A law professor recently included a thought experiment on a constitutional law exam: suppose Lincoln had survived the assassin's bullet, and later wound up facing articles of impeachment for some of his actions during the war. This is obviously a useful exercise, since many people feel an emotional connection to Lincoln and his cause, but this is precisely what law school is supposed to be about: can you suspend such thoughts and think entirely about the law? Well, guess how one critic characterized the exam. You already know the language used to condemn it. Brion McClanahan and I review the accusations against this professor, and the extremely valuable and thought-provoking questions on his exam.
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0:42.1 | my children in the background. I'm recording this particular episode at an unusual time of day, |
0:46.9 | so you may hear them playing. But anyway, I've got a great one for you today with our old friend |
0:53.5 | Brian McClanahan. And I'm going to describe for you once I bring Brian on exactly what's going on. |
0:58.7 | But the long and the short of it is we're taking an article – this is going to sound a little bit convoluted, but we're taking an article from above the law, which is a well-known legal website. |
1:08.2 | And this article is criticizing a constitutional law exam by a professor |
1:13.0 | Josh Blackman. And this exam asked some questions that the student thinks, or this critic |
1:21.9 | anyway, thinks are controversial and just meant to provoke and of no value other than mere white supremacist provocation. |
1:31.5 | So that's the intellectual level of the article. |
1:33.7 | But actually it turns out when you look at this exam, it's full of really important thought-provoking questions, the kind of questions therefore that are never asked. |
1:42.5 | So, you know, of course when an NPC look that up, you don't |
1:46.7 | know what that is, encounters actual thought-provoking, important questions that really get to the |
1:52.5 | heart of the regime. Well, naturally, it's like a crucifix in front of Dracula. So we're going to |
1:57.6 | take a look at this and have some fun. Brian McClanahan, as you know, is the author of many books, including nine presidents who screwed up America, how Alexander Hamilton screwed up America, I think is the name of that. Let me double check that. Yes, that's right. The Founding Fathers guide to the Constitution, the politically incorrect guide to the founding fathers, a bunch of great books. |
2:18.1 | He's got the Mclanahan Academy where he teaches courses in history. He also teaches courses |
2:22.9 | in history at Liberty Classroom.com. He's just a great all-around guy. He's got his PhD from |
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