Andy Smarick, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, joins a sleep-deprived Jonah in a discussion of schools in the time of COVID — all 14,000 districts’ worth. After nerding out over Supreme Court cases, civics, and badly misremembering an episode of M*A*S*H, Andy ends on a note of optimism while Jonah (hopefully) goes to get some sleep somewhere in Alaska.

Show Notes:

-Adrian Vermeule’s common-good constitutionalism

-Sohrab Ahmari vs. David French debates, because why not

-What is Conservatism? With a foreword by Jonah

-Bostock v. Clayton County, court opinion delivered by Gorsuch

-AEI survey about parents’ feelings with the approaching school year

-Smarick’s piece on how pundits ought to have governing experience

-Lyman Stone on The Remnant

-Thomas Sowell’s recent book on charter schools

-Andy: What the Espinoza Decision Means for Other Aspects of Religious Freedom

-Blaine Amendment

-Pierce v. Society of Sisters

-Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer

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