Dahlia Lithwick: Is There a Supreme Court Plot to Destroy America?


Author: Andrew Keen August 30, 2022 Duration: 35:59
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Dahlia Lithwick: Is There a Supreme Court Plot to Destroy America?

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Dahlia Lithwick, author of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America.

Dahlia Lithwick is the senior legal correspondent at Slate and host of Amicus, Slate’s award-winning, biweekly podcast about the law. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Commentary, among other places. Lithwick won a 2013 National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October 2018.


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