Season 5, Episode 46 (Show 255): Balance and Check-mate – Special Guest John Fabian Witt
December 3, 2025
Professor John Witt joins us to offer insight on the laws of war and recent actions of the President and his minion, Secretary Hegseth, and Professor Amar provides an innovative analysis.
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Secretary of Defense Hegseth is making use of his sights. He is focusing at times on Senator Mark Kelly, seeking to wreak havoc upon him for his utterances which have angered Hegseth’s master. Meanwhile, purported drug smugglers have found Davy Jones’ locker at the order of Hegseth, it has been reported, including those left helpless after initial lethal strikes. Yale Professor and Bancroft Prize winner John Fabian Witt joins us to help us make sense of the international law and laws of war issues here. Meanwhile, your poor co-host, Andy, is subjected to a Socratic barrage at the hands of a Kingsfield-like Professor Amar, as the relentless logic – or is it illogic – of Hegseth’s actions run into a Constitutional wall. This is an entirely new, and entirely irresistible analysis; it’s Professor Amar at his best.
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