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Amarica's Constitution

Akhil Reed Amar

Professor Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University and one of the nation’s leading authorities on the Constitution, offers weekly in-depth discussions on the most urgent and fascinating…

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The Innocent Ham Sandwich 2026-10-28 · 72m
Friends Reunited, Citizens Divided - with Justice Stephen Breyer 2026-10-21 · 94m
Delivering Justice - with Judge Patrick Schiltz and Michael Stokes Paulsen 2026-10-07 · 77m
Get Off My Plane - Guests Eugene Volokh and Vikram Amar 2026-09-30 · 81m
Circuit Breaker 2026-09-24 · 46m
The Constitution Goes to Princeton 2026-09-18 · 83m
More Statesmanship, and State Constitutions - Special Guests Steven B. Smith and Vikram D. Amar 2026-09-09 · 104m
The Statesman's Constitution - Special Guest Steven B. Smith 2026-09-02 · 94m
An Amendment Like Some Others - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar 2026-08-26 · 81m
Preclearing the President 2026-08-19 · 74m
There You Go Again 2026-08-12 · 68m
Dobbs and Bruen Plus Time 2026-08-05 · 80m
Faces of Intratextualism 2026-07-29 · 84m
The Surprising Score 2026-07-23 · 82m
Dissenting from the Dissents 2026-07-16 · 87m
Unitary Duality - Guests Steven Calabresi and Vikram Amar 2026-07-08 · 91m
Lincoln's Promise Kept 2026-07-02 · 79m
No Coffee for You 2026-06-26 · 89m
Reverence and Radicalism: Remembering Gordon Wood 2026-06-19 · 83m
Bigotry vs Bureaucracy: State Action and Private Freedom 2026-06-10 · 91m
Rosen on Liberty; Gorsuch on Gorsuch - with Jeffrey Rosen and Justice Neil Gorsuch 2026-06-03 · 77m
Unrehearsed Answers 2026-05-27 · 54m
Scrip for Scripture on the National Mall 2026-05-20 · 82m
JFK's Wall 2026-05-13 · 74m
Fourteen Colonies, Ten Commandments 2026-05-06 · 95m
Remember the Alamo Heights 2026-04-29 · 100m
Popes and Presidents 2026-04-23 · 95m
Last Branch Stands, The Barbara Court Sits - Special Guest Sarah Isgur 2026-04-15 · 103m
New World, Same Constitution 2026-04-08 · 126m
Crib Sheets for Barbara 2026-04-01 · 67m
Created to Born to Barbara 2026-03-25 · 59m
A Brief Ecosystem 2026-03-18 · 76m
Substantive Expansion - with Advisory Opinions and Divided Argument 2026-03-11 · 81m
Attorney Amar's Opening Argument 2026-03-04 · 29m
Tariffs Are A Major Question - Special Guest Vikram Amar 2026-02-27 · 83m
Pillorying the Post 2026-02-18 · 81m
Converse-1983 Is A Thing 2026-02-12 · 73m
A Virtuous Republic, If You Can Keep It 2026-02-04 · 70m
Five-Oh and Four Questions 2026-01-28 · 84m
High Fives 2026-01-21 · 104m
The Minnesota Massacre 2026-01-14 · 54m
Venezuelan Frisbie 2026-01-07 · 81m
Your Questions, Easy and Hard 2025-12-31 · 103m
No Army At All 2025-12-25 · 73m
Courage is Contagious - Special Guest Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander 2025-12-19 · 62m
Humphrey's Execution 2025-12-10 · 83m
Balance and Check-Mate - Special Guest John Fabian Witt 2025-12-03 · 97m
The Only Only 2025-11-26 · 61m
The Undigested Matzo Ball 2025-11-19 · 71m
Incidental Trillions 2025-11-12 · 71m
Election Correction - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar 2025-11-05 · 78m
250 Episodes, 250 Years - and a surprise guest! 2025-10-29 · 93m
The Threads of Liberty - Special Guest Jeffrey Rosen 2025-10-22 · 66m
Opinions on Opinions 2025-10-15 · 69m
Dereliction of Duties 2025-10-08 · 73m
A Tale of Three Cities 2025-10-02 · 77m
Out in the World 2025-09-24 · 81m
Blast Off! 2025-09-17 · 77m
The Big Equal 2025-09-10 · 76m
The 64 Percent Question 2025-09-03 · 79m
The Land of The Land 2025-08-27 · 87m
The Good of the Country 2025-08-21 · 58m
We the Who? - Special Guest Jill Hasday 2025-08-13 · 84m
Skrmetti Skirmish 2025-08-06 · 90m
Geduldigging Your Grave at Oral Argument - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar 2025-07-30 · 105m
Fallon's Doctrine - Special Guest Michael Dorf 2025-07-23 · 83m
Firing Line, Then and Now - Special Guests US Rep. Jamie Raskin, and Author Sam Tanenhaus 2025-07-16 · 103m
Speaking the Law 2025-07-09 · 86m
Children, Indoctrination, and Ideas 2025-07-02 · 92m
Imbalance of Power 2025-06-26 · 90m
A Judicious Life, Part Two - Special Guests Justice Stephen Breyer, Professors Nadine Strossen and Kermit Roosevelt 2025-06-19 · 105m
Count to Ten 2025-06-11 · 85m
Competence, Character - or Cannon 2025-06-04 · 112m
Possibly Preparing Humphrey's Execution 2025-05-28 · 111m
The Merits of The Merits 2025-05-21 · 106m
A Judicious Life, Part One - Special Guests Dean Heather Gerken and Judge Kevin Newsom 2025-05-15 · 104m
No School For You - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar 2025-04-23 · 83m
Equality, Emergencies, Exception, and Easter 2025-04-16 · 96m
Project 2026 2025-04-09 · 89m
Third Time, No Charm 2025-04-02 · 77m
Wisdom From Breyer To Pryor - Special Guest Judge William Pryor 2025-03-27 · 91m
The Shelter From The Storm - Special Guest Hampton Dellinger 2025-03-19 · 93m
Marbury then, Mayhem now 2025-03-12 · 77m
Sinking the Unitary Executive - Special Guest Steven G. Calabresi 2025-03-05 · 99m
Across the Aisle - Special Guest Steven G. Calabresi 2025-02-26 · 121m
Impounding Impoundment - Special Guest Josh Chafetz 2025-02-19 · 101m
Where Are The Lines? 2025-02-12 · 79m
Birthright Citizenship - Judges on Benches v Judges on Barstools 2025-02-05 · 87m
Birthright and Birthwrong 2025-01-29 · 106m
End of an ERA 2025-01-22 · 88m
Looking Forward, Looking Back 2025-01-15 · 88m
Unconventional 2025-01-08 · 89m
Justice on the Spot - Special Guest Justice Stephen Breyer 2025-01-01 · 96m
Changing Your Mind, or Changing The Rules 2024-12-25 · 94m
Unpardonable 2024-12-18 · 70m
Recess Games - Special Guests Josh Chafetz and Thomas Schmidt 2024-12-11 · 81m
The Obsequious Instruments of His Pleasure 2024-12-04 · 94m
Does Section Three Live? 2024-11-27 · 67m
The Gaetz of Hell 2024-11-20 · 67m
Preview of Peril - Special Live Podcast 2024-11-13 · 91m
All This Fuss About the Presidential Election - Special Guests Gordon Wood, Steven Smith, Paul Grimstad 2024-11-05 · 93m
The Sound of Silence - Special Guest Ruth Marcus 2024-10-30 · 81m
Constitution Things 2024-10-23 · 67m
How to Fix - and How Not to Fix - the Immunity Opinion 2024-10-16 · 110m
Ex-Presidents: The Ex-cellent and the Ex-ecrable 2024-10-09 · 88m
The Return of the Enemies List 2024-10-02 · 81m
The Blue Dot 2024-09-25 · 86m
The Devil You Know 2024-09-11 · 99m
Your Turn 2024-09-04 · 59m
The Kennedy Shame and Schumer's Folly - Special Guest Ruth Marcus 2024-08-28 · 88m
Circuit of Shame 2024-08-21 · 74m
Term Limits Made Workable 2024-08-14 · 77m
How To Get To 18 Years 2024-08-07 · 86m
Stepping Aside and Its Implications 2024-07-30 · 80m
Virtuous Presidents and A Loose Cannon - guest Vikram Amar 2024-07-23 · 109m
Resignation Realities and Bullets Dodged (Part 4) 2024-07-17 · 94m
Disgrace 2024-07-10 · 99m
Debate Debacle, and Agency Atrophy 2024-07-03 · 114m
The Court's Originalism About Face 2024-06-26 · 91m
Protests, Mifepristone, and Bump Stocks 2024-06-19 · 99m
Lear Jets, Books, and Virtue 2024-06-12 · 83m
The Jury Speaks 2024-06-05 · 72m
Big Mouth on Campus 2024-05-29 · 92m
Flags of Our Spouses 2024-05-22 · 78m
Trials, Pardons, and Elephants 2024-05-15 · 112m
Immunity versus The Rule of Law 2024-05-08 · 72m
Sense and Nonsense on Immunity 2024-05-01 · 81m
Don't Touch but Do Convict 2024-04-24 · 82m
Crime Means Punishment 2024-04-17 · 85m
Immunity Therapy 2024-04-10 · 87m
No Standing Any Time 2024-04-03 · 112m
History Will Judge 2024-03-27 · 91m
Dissenting in Concurrence 2024-03-20 · 98m
What the Concurrences Should Have Said 2024-03-13 · 77m
Happy Anniversary Mr. Lincoln from the Court 2024-03-06 · 93m
Staking our Claim 2024-02-28 · 64m
What the Oral Argument Should Have Said - Part 2 2024-02-15 · 109m
What the Oral Argument Should Have Said 2024-02-11 · 92m
20 Questions on Section 3 and Insurrection #1 - Special Guest Ted Widmer 2024-02-07 · 107m
A Self-Educating Gaffe 2024-01-31 · 97m
The Amicus Brief - Part Two 2024-01-24 · 78m
Friends of the Court - The Brief 2024-01-20 · 85m
Section Three Goes to Washington 2024-01-10 · 76m
Section Three Punditry: The Good, The Bad, and The Silly 2024-01-03 · 109m
The World Turns to Section Three 2023-12-27 · 116m
Juries, Jarkesy, and a Joke 2023-12-20 · 111m
2 Experts, 3 Courts, Section 3, Part 3 - Special Guests William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen 2023-12-12 · 115m
Sandra the First 2023-12-06 · 96m
Sense and Nonsensibility on Section 3 - Special Guests Mark Graber and Gerard Magliocca 2023-11-29 · 92m
Guns, Clips, and Rahimi 2023-11-22 · 100m
Moore on the Brief - Special Guest Vikram David Amar 2023-11-15 · 104m
Moore, in Brief 2023-11-08 · 89m
Aisles, not Walls 2023-11-01 · 89m
Speakerless 2023-10-25 · 80m
A Tale of Two Jordans 2023-10-18 · 94m
Allen and Affirmative Action, Again 2023-10-11 · 84m
Eleven Presidents - Special Guest Bob Woodward 2023-10-04 · 91m
Have Kavanaugh, Will Travel 2023-09-27 · 85m
Justice Jackson’s Santa Clause 2023-09-20 · 108m
An Officer and a President 2023-09-13 · 88m
The Two Experts, Part Two - Special Guests William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen 2023-09-06 · 98m
The Two Experts on Section Three - Special Guests William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen 2023-08-30 · 94m
Georgia On Our Minds - Special Guest Ruth Marcus 2023-08-23 · 75m
This Must Be The Place 2023-08-16 · 88m
Third Time’s A Charm 2023-08-09 · 105m
The Legacy of the Harvard Case - Special Guest Jeffrey Brenzel 2023-08-02 · 104m
Amara Culpa, Amara Bene 2023-07-26 · 82m
Scrutinizing Affirmative Action - Special Guest Jeffrey Brenzel 2023-07-20 · 102m
The Rights of Bigots 2023-07-12 · 97m
No Moore ISL 2023-07-05 · 108m
Four Clauses, Two Juries 2023-06-28 · 83m
Whose Welfare? 2023-06-21 · 92m
The Judgment of History 2023-06-14 · 74m
I Am Calabresi 2023-06-07 · 86m
Crossfire on the Ceiling - Special Guests Jack Balkin and Saikrishna Prakash 2023-05-31 · 86m
Duct Tape on a Warhol - Special Guest James Boyle 2023-05-24 · 102m
Judging for Yourself - Special Guest Kathleen Clark 2023-05-17 · 85m
Coronation Considerations 2023-05-10 · 80m
More or Less Moore 2023-05-03 · 85m
Standing Rules 2023-04-26 · 66m
Judges and Adverse Events 2023-04-19 · 72m
Doubting Thomas, and doubting the doubters 2023-04-12 · 86m
Discretion and Indictment 2023-04-05 · 77m
Much to Bragg About? 2023-03-29 · 74m
It’s Coming 2023-03-22 · 56m
The Lord Mayor Adams 2023-03-15 · 91m
Sing a Song (of) Mike Pence 2023-03-08 · 107m
Torture, Time Travel, and Transformation 2023-03-01 · 77m
Secrets, Boards, and Moots - Oh My! 2023-02-22 · 94m
Treason, Reason, History, and OurStory - Special Guest Kermit Roosevelt III 2023-02-15 · 110m
Trillion Dollar Tricks - Special Guest Jack Balkin 2023-02-08 · 87m
Declaration, or Gettysburg? - Special Guest Kermit Roosevelt III 2023-02-01 · 78m
Wait - Don’t Tell Me! 2023-01-25 · 93m
The Idaho Murder Case in Constitutional Perspective 2023-01-18 · 84m
Speaker-ish 2023-01-06 · 86m
January 6th, Santos, and The Speaker 2023-01-04 · 87m
Strictly Scrutinizing Moore - Special Guest Kate Shaw 2022-12-28 · 66m
More on Moore - The Oral Argument, Continued 2022-12-21 · 108m
Mr. Amar Goes to Washington - the Moore v. Harper Oral Argument 2022-12-14 · 105m
Out-Ranked: Live Podcast with Yale Law School’s FedSoc Chapter 2022-12-07 · 74m
Ban the Box? 2022-11-30 · 104m
100 Podcasts for Us, 40 Years for FedSoc - Special Guest Steven G. Calabresi 2022-11-23 · 81m
Double Negative Action 2022-11-16 · 102m
The Federalist Society, in Brief - Special Guest Steven Calabresi 2022-11-09 · 93m
The News in Brief 2022-11-02 · 90m
The Brief in Brief 2022-10-26 · 96m
Sweet Hugo in Alabama - A Special Live Podcast 2022-10-19 · 91m
Zelig On The Court - Special Guest Brad Snyder 2022-10-12 · 94m
Zelig of the Court - Special Guest Brad Snyder 2022-10-05 · 82m
The Court’s Other Amy 2022-09-28 · 81m
Loving Lincoln, and Castigating Kastigar 2022-09-21 · 96m
Masters, Monarchs, and Mangling the Fifth 2022-09-14 · 86m
Trump Says His Name 2022-09-07 · 86m
Trump Takes the Fifth 2022-08-31 · 96m
Afraid to Ask: Hamilton and a Wealth Tax 2022-08-24 · 95m
Search-A-Lago 2022-08-17 · 111m
Originalism on Trial 2022-08-10 · 105m
Time is Now 2022-08-03 · 79m
Tackling Kennedy 2022-07-27 · 68m
Separate or Equal 2022-07-20 · 111m
The Long and The Short of Bruen 2022-07-13 · 63m
Unprecedented 2022-07-07 · 108m
Special Episode - Prediction and Prescription 2022-07-04 · 101m
The Real Steal, Part 3 - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar 2022-06-29 · 70m
The Real Steal, Part 2 - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar 2022-06-22 · 72m
The Real Steal - Part One 2022-06-15 · 66m
Guns, Legislation, Uvalde, and Bruen - special guest Adam Winkler 2022-06-08 · 91m
After Uvalde - What? 2022-06-01 · 87m
Is There a Dobbs Deal? 2022-05-25 · 99m
After Dobbs 2022-05-18 · 85m
The Memes of Dobbs’ Leak 2022-05-11 · 86m
Woe is Roe 2022-05-04 · 89m
Citizenship and Citations 2022-04-27 · 92m
Is Jackson Commissioned? 2022-04-20 · 93m
Rights and ”Justice” 2022-04-13 · 116m
Graham Crock-er 2022-04-06 · 69m
The Hearings According To Durbin - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar 2022-04-02 · 55m
Confirmation Correction - Special Guest Vikram D. Amar 2022-03-23 · 91m
Lawyer of the Century 2022-03-16 · 87m
The Music of the Law 2022-03-09 · 92m
Dellinger Departs, Jackson Arrives 2022-03-02 · 104m
Your Turn; Our Take 2022-02-23 · 75m
Now Now Now - Guest Jesse Wegman (Part 2) 2022-02-16 · 83m
A New ERA - Special Guest Jesse Wegman 2022-02-09 · 77m
Gary and Gorby - Special Guest Gary Hart 2022-02-02 · 83m
Debate Debate 2022-01-26 · 102m
Heart to Hart: Filibuster Finis - Special Guest Gary Hart 2022-01-19 · 85m
The Year and The Questions, Part 2 2022-01-12 · 101m
80 Years in 80 Minutes - A Special Live Episode 2022-01-06 · 92m
The Year That Was, and Your Questions 2021-12-29 · 100m
Roberts Court, or Trump Court? A Conversation with Linda Greenhouse 2021-12-22 · 75m
The Court Astonishes - Special Guest Ed Whelan 2021-12-15 · 89m
Roe Roe Roe: Stare and Stenchy 2021-12-08 · 106m
The Future of the Past 2021-12-01 · 98m
About Abortion - A Precedent Primer 2021-11-24 · 88m
To Heller and Back 2021-11-17 · 95m
Putting a Head to Our Gun 2021-11-10 · 81m
The Opening Episode 2021-11-03 · 105m
72 Term Papers 2021-10-27 · 76m
Errors of Commission 2021-10-20 · 110m
Speaking of the First Amendment - Joint Episode with FIRE 2021-10-12 · 100m
Adams or the Dog - Special Guest Edward Larson 2021-10-05 · 77m
Basically Random 2021-09-29 · 81m
Empire of History - Special Guest Gordon S. Wood 2021-09-22 · 84m
Literary Labyrinth 2021-09-15 · 95m
The Ayes and Nays Upon Texas 2021-09-08 · 103m
A Friendly Judge 2021-09-01 · 94m
Sabermetrics for Lawyers 2021-08-25 · 110m
Confirmation Cacophony 2021-08-18 · 97m
Neal Katyal's Life in the Law, Part 2 (Special Guest) 2021-08-13 · 82m
Neal Katyal's Life in the Law, Part I 2021-08-03 · 96m
Witness in the Center Square 2021-07-28 · 86m
Tall Tales 2021-07-21 · 88m
Architects May Come 2021-07-14 · 112m
Political Football 2021-07-07 · 97m
Know the Nine You Will 2021-06-30 · 111m
Yale's Constitution - Special Episode - Guest Nicholas Christakis 2021-06-28 · 85m
They Are Small Colleges 2021-06-23 · 73m
Princeton Palaver Present 2021-06-16 · 126m
Princeton Palaver Past 2021-06-09 · 87m
Harvard Hooey 2021-06-02 · 85m
Torture, Trump, and Tech - A Conversation with Alan Dershowitz 2021-05-26 · 71m
Constitutionalists United - Special Guest Floyd Abrams 2021-05-19 · 60m
Tinker to Amar to Strossen - Special Guest Nadine Strossen 2021-05-12 · 104m
Voracious Horatius 2021-05-06 · 67m
18 Arguments for 18 Years 2021-04-28 · 88m
Leaving The Field 2021-04-21 · 79m
Ending Catch-22 2021-04-14 · 79m
The Purpose of the Truth - Special Guest Bob Woodward 2021-04-07 · 79m
Advise and Impeach 2021-03-31 · 99m
Nullification Nullity 2021-03-24 · 90m
Jefferson Ben Amar 2021-03-17 · 88m
Sedition and Perdition 2021-03-10 · 104m
The Unanimous Man 2021-03-03 · 79m
Succession Inquisition 2021-02-24 · 81m
Snap - You're in Lisbon 2021-02-17 · 62m
Menus without Eating - Special Guest Prof. Philip Bobbitt 2021-02-12 · 64m
Ex-Pres Ex-perts 2021-02-11 · 68m
Bullets (Not) Dodged, Part 3: Shocked, Shocked! 2021-02-02 · 49m
Bullets Dodged, Part 2: The Faithless and the Feckless 2021-01-27 · 43m
Inauguration: Bullets Dodged 2021-01-17 · 53m
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