Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on today's show is a frequent guest, John McGinnis. He's the George Dix Professor in Constitutional Law at Northwestern University, law school, and he's a contributing editor of City Journal.

He's written for many publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, and he's a contributing editor of City Journal. He's written for many publications,

including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, and others. And he writes

regularly also at Law and Liberty, the website. He's the author of two books, accelerating democracy,

transforming government through technology, and originalism and the good constitution.

Today we're going to be discussing legal topics.

His essay, Law Betrayed, which appeared in the most recent issue of City Journal, and describes

the influence of identity politics on American legal education, the growing influence of identity politics.

We'll also get John's perspective on the momentous Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard,

which has come down in recent weeks, as everyone knows.

So, John, as always, thanks for joining us.

Delighted to be here, Brian.

So to discuss your story first, the law of trade, law of trade, law professors are known,

generally speaking, to be more liberal than the general public. But, you know, traditionally they

took pride in fostering the open inquiry and debate that one would think is essential to a rigorous

legal education. With the rise in recent years of a kind of ferocious identity politics, however, law schools have become much more monolithically left way.

So ideas and legal theories that run counter to progressive dogma are increasingly excluded from curricula, and professors and students who espouse these ideas

are finding themselves shunned. So I wonder, you know, what key forces have contributed to this

shift in law schools and what your own assessment of it is?

I think you're absolutely right. The key change schools and what's your own assessment of it is.

I think you're absolutely right. The key change has been the composition of the faculty and the composition of the student body. When I went into law teaching, people were certainly

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