That Was the Philosophical Week, June 16th - 20th, 2025
Richard Epstein on the constitutional authority at stake in California; Juliana Geran Pilon covers Alexei Navalny's memoir.
Trump Keeps California Guard (with Richard Epstein)
An appeals court victory has allowed President Trump to maintain control of California National Guard troops deployed against the Los Angeles riots, overturning Judge Brier's questionable ruling that characterized massive violence as merely “stray incidents.”
Professor Richard Epstein of New York University and Civitas Outlook joins the program to analyze the constitutional authority at stake and why Governor Newsom's legal challenge was doomed from the start. We then turn to the fog of war in the Middle East, where Ayatollah Khamenei’s commitment to martyrdom over surrender suggests no peaceful resolution as Israel systematically dismantles Iranian infrastructure.
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Navalny’s Final Testament (with Juliana Geran Pilon)
Professor Julianna Geran Pilon recently covered the release of the late Alexei Navalny’s memoir for Civitas Institute. She joins us to explore how a ten-year-old boy's experience with the Chernobyl cover-up shaped Russia's greatest modern dissident, and why Navalny chose to return from Germany knowing Putin would kill him.
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