Ilya Shapiro Guest-Blogging About “Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites”
I’m delighted to report that Ilya Shapiro (Manhattan Institute) will be guest-blogging this week about this new book of his. From the publisher’s summary:
In the past, Columbia Law School produced leaders like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Now it produces window-smashing activists.
When protestors at Columbia broke into a buildÂing and created illegal encampments, the student-led Columbia Law Review demanded that finals be canceled because of “distress.” At Stanford, chanting activists, egged on by an associate dean, drove away a federal judge. Yale’s hostility to free speech led more than a dozen federal judges to boycott the school for clerkship hiring.
Law schools used to teach students how to think critically, advance logical arguments, and respect oppoÂnents. Now those students cannot tolerate disagreement and reject the validity of the law itself. And yet, rioting Ivy Leaguers are the same people who will hold important government positions, fight constitutional lawsuits, and advise Fortune 500 companies.
In Lawless, Ilya Shapiro explains how we got here and what we can do about it. The proble
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