Season 5, Episode 37 (Show 246): A Tale of Three Cities

October 1, 2025

Professor Amar’s travels take him to the cities of our current constitutional angst, including Portland and Salt Lake City, and this is discussed at a live podcast taping at the Yale Club of NYC.

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Professor Amar visits cities that are in the constitutional news these days:  Portland, where the military pays an uninvited visit; Salt Lake City, where gunfire continues this year’s alarming litany of political assassination also seen in Minnesota and elsewhere.  Akhil’s epic trilogy, with Born Equal now taking its place as the second volume, speaks to how our history shows us the constitutional principles at work – or not at work – in these and other happenings in our nation.  And he speaks of New Haven, where work has been and is still done that enables these lessons to be told. All this takes place during a live podcast taping at the Yale Club of New York City, with a live and lively audience that treats us, and you, to their questions and comments.

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Lincoln's Lesson on Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order - Akhil Reed Amar

Professor Amar writes in Time.com explaining how the two versions of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation provide valuable insights into the meaning of the first sentence of the 14th amendment, and how birthright citizenship became a right of birth equality.

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