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Hang Up and Listen

Hang Up Extra: The Understanding Ali Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Robert Lipsyte to discuss what Muhammad Ali stood for and what he represented in the broader culture. Lipsyte: Muhammad Ali Dies at 74: Titan of Boxing and the 20th Century http://nyti.ms/1sUHBHj Facebook: facebook.com/HangUpAndListen Email: hangup@slate.com Show notes at www.slate.com/hangup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:29.7

Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's legal podcast Amagus. If you are listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th.

0:45.0

My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests,

0:50.0

including Cheryline Eiffel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice, all about how originalism, a relatively

0:57.0

recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution, has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law. It's been

1:05.7

doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the

1:10.3

rolling back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear.

1:26.5

But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th

1:31.7

to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation.

1:36.2

Go to slate.com slash Amicus Live for tickets.

1:40.3

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and Stephen Fatsus and I are going to bring you a special

1:48.1

episode of Hang Up and Listen. We're recording this on June 4th, 2016, the day after Muhammad Ali's death.

1:56.2

In 1964, a young New York Times sports writer named Robert Lipsight was assigned to cover.

2:01.6

As he later put it, the dismemberment of the fighter

2:04.6

then known as Cassius Clay at the hands of heavyweight champion sunny liston.

2:09.5

After Clay shocked the world Lipsite covered the boxer for the next three years

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