Liberty Chats
Steamboat Institute has launched Liberty Chats, a bi-weekly, 15-minute podcast. The Liberty Chats podcast features interviews with a variety of experts, leaders, journalists, and policymakers on the importance of our nation’s founding principles and the importance of limited government. Guests will include sitting members of Congress, White House press reporters, think tank leaders, entertainers, political strategists and more! Liberty Chats is produced by members of Steamboat Institute’s Emerging Leaders Council (ELC), a network of students and young professionals who are leaders on campuses and in communities across America. They represent the next generation of pro-founding principles, free-market, and free speech leaders and are proud to stand up for these values. Subscribe to “Liberty Chats” wherever you get your podcasts to get automatic downloads of our episodes every two weeks.
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Liberty Chats, Episode 37: Ilya Shapiro, Supreme Court and Cancel Culture
Host Cody Wisniewski, a member of the Steamboat Insitute Emerging Leader Council interviews Ilya Shapiro about his new book and the recent news of his resignation as Executive Director of Georgetown University's prestigious law school's Center for the Constitution.
Ilya is a Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies for The Manhattan Institute and the author of Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court (2020).
Recently named Executive Director of Georgetown University's prestigious law school's Center for the Constitution. Shortly before he was to assume his new position in January, Ilya was placed on administrative leave by the University after he spoke out against President Biden's statement that his next Supreme Court nomination would be based on race and gender.
IIlyadiscusses his redoubled efforts as an outspoken advocate for the First Amendment and combating cancel culture in America. Last week, Georgetown reinstated Ilya but made it clear that he could be subject to further disciplinary action depending on statements he might make in the future. Rather than subject his family to continued attacks and work in a clearly hostile environment, Ilya made the principled decision to step down from his position, taking a courageous stand against a university which seeks to silence diversity of ideology.
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