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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Whittington’s Wisdom

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Princeton Professor Keith Whittington is so sharp that he gives you paper cuts when you shake his hand. That’s why we had him on - to walk all of us mere mortals through the complex history of judicial review as outlined in his book, Repugnant Laws. Keith brought a mix of history, current events, rank punditry and more to this podcast! Show Notes: -Keith’s book, Repugnant Laws -The history of the “8 glasses of water a day” myth -Keith’s last book, Speak Freely -Oliver Wendell Holmes’ opinion for Buck V. Bell -The scary reality of self-censorship at universities -Temperance-era protests at Berkeley over family serving beer to firefighters, God forbid -Remnant 146 with Adam White -Keith’s WaPo piece on Dershowitz’s impeachment argument -Remnant 174 with Josh Kraushaar

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0:00.0

Greetings here, listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcast.

0:30.2

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0:52.3

So today we are going to do another one of our sort of deep dives on an issue that is not necessary.

1:00.5

Oh, it's sort of always in the news in one way or another, but it's not tied to the headlines.

1:05.7

And we're going to talk about with Keith Wittington. Keith, welcome to the podcast.

1:10.0

Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

1:11.9

What is your actual title? Like where are you here?

1:13.9

I am the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University.

1:18.8

Okay. No relation to the other Cromwell.

1:22.8

Not to my knowledge, but I don't know for sure.

1:25.7

He should probably look into that. Maybe I should. I looked into it on the extent I know he was a Guil d'Age lawyer for Pluto Crops.

1:32.9

And so I thought, you're kind of guy.

1:34.9

I'm with me, exactly. So I'm sort of proud to wear that badge.

1:38.5

And you have a new book out called Repugnant Laws Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the founding to the present.

1:47.2

You are also someone of wide esteem among my codery of legal, beagle brain trusters who I talked to about.

1:57.2

To have explained to me these strange constitutional law questions and all of the rest.

2:02.8

And they were all very excited that you were here. So they're excitement is contagious.

2:07.0

Thank you for coming. That's always good to hear. I appreciate it.

2:08.6

And I am a long time in my ear, both the podcast and the dispatch.

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