Our latest Anchoring Truths Podcast returns to a topic discussed at the beginning of the summer which has only added resonance since: the true meaning of birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Our guest is a true giant of the American legal academy—Richard A. Epstein. Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU, Director of the Classical Liberal Institute, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Chicago, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and now Senior Fellow at the Civitas Institute, Epstein has spent more than five decades reshaping how we think about property, contracts, torts, Roman Law, and constitutional structure. His landmark 1985 book Takings remains one of the most influential works of legal scholarship of the modern era. He is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant, rigorous, and fearless classical-liberal thinkers of his generation—a living legend whose writings have shaped generations of lawyers, judges, and scholars.
He’s with us to discuss his powerful new book, The Myth of Birthright Citizenship: What the Fourteenth Amendment Really Says, and to unpack the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Trump v. Barbara.
Read The Myth of Birthright Citizenship
Follow Epstein’s latest writing at Civitas Outlook
