Season 5, Episode 36 (Show 245): Out in the World

September 24, 2025

Now that Born Equal is available, readers and scholars are having at it. We present a symposium with Professors Kate Shaw and Kermit Roosevelt weighing in on the book, having read advance copies, and Professor Amar’s responses. 

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Born Equal is being read – by academics, pundits, historians, and citizens.  Reaction has begun to pour in, and discussion has begun.  In this episode, we bring you some of the very best flavor of such discussion – an academic symposium held at Penn Carey Law School on the book.  Professors Kate Shaw and Kermit Roosevelt each read the work with great care and deliver extensive remarks on the book, pointing out themes and insights – and raising questions.  Oh, so many questions.  Professor Amar then responds in the moment, and students in the audience pose their own queries.  The constitutional conversation continues, and is never complete.  But this one in particular will go on, as there were so many important questions raised that they could never be answered in this short interval.  But you will thrill to deep engagement and fascinating perspectives from this all-star panel of great thinkers.  

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