The Court of History

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns about his PBS series on the American Revolution, telling its story from the vantage point of those who fought it, and its message for America today. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz examine Trump’s birthright citizenship case with Ahkil Amar of Yale law, the skepticism with which it was met by even conservative justices of the Supreme Court, the crisis of originalist ideology it has set off, and Trump’s assault on the Lincoln legacy. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube communi...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz do a deep dive on Trump’s effort to overturn birthright citizenship with Ahkil Amar of Yale Law, discussing the false history presented by the Trump side, the true history that refutes it. Books: The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln https://a.co/d/1dLTVjG All the Powers of Earth: https://a.co/d/imrGwQx Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMT...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Peter S. Canellos, author of “Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement,” his extraordinary rise, close links to the Federalist Society, crusade against Roe v. Wade, and his multiple scandals. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: http...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz are joined by author Peter Canellos to discuss Justice Sam Alito's legacy on the court and the destructive triump of the conservative legal movement. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz review Trump’s lunacy, from his raging against leaders of the Western alliance to Bruce Springsteen to Davy Crockett, Trump being proclaimed Jesus, and his endless freefall into madness. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Bec...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz investigate the firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi with Dave Aronberg, former Palm Beach State Attorney and Legal AF podcaster. We discuss her transformation into a MAGA fanatic, yet insufficiently vicious in her results for Trump, what Aronberg knows about the original Epstein probe in Palm Beach, and the future of the Democratic Party in Florida. Subscribe: h...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with journalist and historian John Avlon on the spread of antisemitism among young Republicans, its connection to racism, why JD Vance believes there are no enemies on the right, and the international alliance of Trump and Putin for autocrats. https://www.amazon.com/Wingnuts-Extremism-Obama-John-Avlon/dp/0991247604/ref=sr_1_4?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-3cqcLHxatAXFd...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with journalist and historian John Avlon on “The Nazi Problem in the GOP,” how Trump gives permission to extremism and the radicalization of the GOP. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Su...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Trump acting out the “madman theory” without the theory, how he has made himself the Iranian hostage, and how he went to war based on firing experts and relying on ignorance and stupidity. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwp...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz investigate the insider trading surrounding Trump’s announcement of “negotiations,” the new Jack Smith revelation of Mar-a-Lago monetization, Trump’s strange “present,” and the DHS scandal. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss the clash between justices Brett Kavanaugh and Ketanji Jackson over the conservative manipulation of the shadow docket,  the court’s self-destruction through its “passive vices,” and conservative victimology as an ideology with Leah Litman, professor at the University of Michigan Law School and author of Lawless. https://www.amazon.com/Lawless-Supreme-Con...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss the Mississippi mail-in ballots case before the Supreme Court, its partisan exploitation of the shadow docket and abandonment of even the pretense of judiciousness with Leah Litman, professor at the University of Michigan Law School and author of Lawless. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube...

Macho Macho Man: Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss the nomination of Markwayne Mullin to succeed Kristi Noam as Secretary of the department of Homeland security, his posturing as a tough guy and his politics of violence Books: The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln https://a.co/d/1dLTVjG All the Powers of Earth: https://a.co/d/imrGwQx Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Lega...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss how authoritarian regimes get worse and worse, how people engage in denial with reality, and what an indecent and by contrast a decent society is, with Ian Buruma, author of “Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945.” Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZ...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss how and why people are docile under a totalitarian regime, the collaborators, the compromisers, and the resisters, with Ian Buruma, author of “Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945.” Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become...

Trump's "personal Vietnam" Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss how Trump called "the dating game" his" personal Vietnam," the Vietnam hearings held by senator J. William Fulbright, and why we need hearings now into the Iran war. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdC...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss FCC chair Brendan Carr threat to pull licenses if they don't tow Trump'd Iran line, Trump's treason label of journalists and how it fits into his overall scheme of controlling the media with Seth Stern and Caitlin Vogus of the freedom of the press foundation. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF You...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Trump dressing his cabinet members in Florsheim shoes, how dictators humiliate those close to them, and how Trump has created a hierarchy of humiliation. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz talk with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse about his floor speech, “Trump/Russia, Trump/Epstein, Epstein/Russia,” questions about Trump’s “wag the dog” reasons for the Iran War, the corrupt contracts at Kristi Noem’s DHS, and whether Trump’s new appointee, Sen. Markwayne Mullin with be Stephen Miller’s errand boy. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_conf...

Sidney Blumenthal talks about his latest guardian column with Sean Wilentz, how Trump has cornered himself in his Iran war split his manga base and wants to use the war to subvert the midterm elections. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the...

Rosa Brooks, Georgetown University law professor and former Pentagon and State Department official, speaks with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz the idiocy of Trump’s Iran War rationales, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s clownish incompetence and the degradation of the US military. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community:...

Rosa Brooks, Georgetown University law professor and former Pentagon and State Department official, speaks with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz on simulations of a Trump fascist takeover, Kristi Noem’s implosion, ICE as paramilitary menace to democracy, and the how the reality of Trump’s authoritarianism has exceeded the simulations. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmati...

Michael Wolff talks with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz Bill Clinton's testimony Hillary Clinton's testimony Trump's lies and what Epstein told Wolff about them Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpop...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz talk with James Mann, foreign policy expert, author of The Rise of the Vulcans, about how Trump has no plan for his war or its aftermath, how it’s playing into the hands of China, and is based on naive and false assumptions. Books: The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln https://a.co/d/1dLTVjG All the Powers of Earth: https://a.co/d/imrGwQx Subscribe...