This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about

front-line theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.

I'm Albert Moller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville,

Kentucky.

Most of us have a list of persons with whom we'd like at some point to have a conversation.

On that list, my list is Professor Alan Dershoochowitz of the Harvard Law School.

He is indeed the Felix Frankfurt or Professor of Law at Harvard.

He's a graduate of Brooklyn College in the Yale Law School.

Most of us know him as one of the most famous litigators in America.

He just might be America's most prominent attorney.

But he's also one of the nation's most honest thinkers.

That's why I'm looking forward to a conversation with Professor Alan Dershershirchowitz has been for many years professor of law at the

Harvard Law School. He is also America's most famous attorney and one of America's most prominent public

intellectuals.

It's our honor today to have this conversation with Dr. Alan Dershruitz.

Welcome to Thinking in Public.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

I have been reading your material for a long, long time.

I think many Americans know you about your television appearances and I think at least a couple

points we've been on the same program if not at the same moment.

But when I read you, I read an argument made

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