How Our Constitution Works ... And Why It Doesn’t
Exploring the US Constitution with a critical eye looking forward and back with author, lawyer, and syndicated columnist William Cooper and Pulitzer Prize-winning American legal historian Ed Larson.
Ed: law.pepperdine.edu/faculty-research/edward-larson
Will: will-cooper.com
Episodes

Jul 29, 2026
Jul 29, 2026
29 min
How Our Constitution Works And Why It Doesn't:
More from Professor Solove, the leading scholar in this space.
Privacy in Authoritarian Times: Surveillance Capitalism and Government Surveillance67 Boston College Law Review 51 (2026)
Is the Fourth Amendment Third Party Doctrine Dead?
Thoughts on Chatrie v. United States
https://danielsolove.substack.com/p/is-the-fourth-amendment-third-party
Are Warrants Enough?
Why Fourth Amendment Warrants Can't Meet the Moment
https://danielsolove.substack.com/p/are-warrants-enough
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Essays on policy, reading recommendations, humor, tech and the humanities, and more

Jul 21, 2026
Jul 21, 2026
41 min
How Our Constitution Works And Why It Doesn't: We discuss the essential role of congressional oversight in our constitutional constellation.

Jul 15, 2026
Jul 15, 2026
36 min
Yet another area where the Trump administration is pushing the boundaries.

Jul 7, 2026

Jul 2, 2026

Jun 25, 2026
Jun 25, 2026
28 min
We discuss her work in free speech and her contribution to Harvard Law's new book, America Unfinished.
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/rebecca-tushnet/
https://hls.harvard.edu/america-unfinished/

Jun 16, 2026
Jun 16, 2026
48 min
We discuss a new book by Harvard's faculty that he contributed to, and his thoughts on American democracy today.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/842833/america-unfinished-by-edited-by-alexandra-natapoff-and-guy-uriel-e-charles/

Jun 11, 2026
Jun 11, 2026
32 min
We discuss an array of ways the constitution isn't working with Texas and Harvard law professor Sandy Levinson.
https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/sanford-v-levinson/

Jun 2, 2026

May 19, 2026







