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Good morning, glory America, bonjour, hi Canada, that music means it's the last Radio Hour

of the Week, and on this July 7th, 2023, I'm joined by Dean Matt Spalding.

He helms the Graduate School in DC, the Kirby Center for Hillsdale College, and he is also a board

member of New College, which puts Matt Spalding in a very interesting position in the aftermath

of students for fair admissions versus Harvard, because that case dealt with both a private college,

Harvard, and a public college, the University of North Carolina, and Matt's got his fingers in

the management of both. Good morning, Dean Spalding, how are you? Good morning you, how are you?

I'm doing great, I'm actually in a good mood, I have this Supreme Court session.

Oh boy, am I ever. I am telling everyone, let's start broad, that this is the end of the row

era officially. The row era is much more than the abortion jurisprudence that grew out of row

in Roe v. Wade, but it's 50 years of terrible law and confused law and misguided law and blindfolded

law and legislating from the bench, and I think it's over, Dean Spalding, what do you think?

No, no, I think you're absolutely right about that. Not only the fact that, first of all,

I think this affirmative action decision is the crucial decision in this term, but the fact of that

decision, essentially reversed 50 years of bad law and Dobb, reverse 50 years of bad law,

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