Why do America’s best educated kids suffer from drug & alcohol abuse? While the mainstream media beats up on public schools, our guest, Dr. Suniya Luthar, has authored several studies proving that it’s America’s elite institutions of higher learning that are the real pits of despair, anxiety, alcoholism and drug abuse.
A new study shows students attending elite schools are three times as likely to develop drug and alcohol addiction than students attending inner city public schools. Why are America’s elite schools churning out anxious, depressed alcoholics and drug addicts? It costs 60 grand a year to send your kid to Georgetown Prep. You’d think someone running that institution would be sharp enough to spring for mental health services.
Professor Corey Brettschneider explains how Don Jr. violated campaign finance law by taking that meeting with the Russians, and how the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision spells out the crime he may have committed.
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Constitutional Law Professor Corey Brettschneider warns that Neil Gorsuch may turn out to be more conservative than Antonin Scalia. Professor Brettschneider is author of “When The State Speaks.”
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Corey Brettschneider is professor of political science at Brown University, where he teaches courses in constitutional law and political theory. He is currently also a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Brettschneider was a visiting professor at Fordham Law School, a Rockefeller faculty fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, a visiting associate professor at Harvard Law School, and a faculty fellow at Harvard’s Safra Center for Ethics. Brettschneider received a PhD in politics from Princeton University and a JD from Stanford University. He is the author of When the State Speaks, What Should it Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality (Princeton University Press, 2012) and Democratic Rights: The Substance of Self-Government (Princeton University Press, 2007). These books have been the subject of several journal symposia, including one most recently published in the Brooklyn Law Review. Brettschneider is also the author of a casebook, Constitutional Law and American Democracy: Cases and Readings (Aspen Publishers/Wolters Kluwer Law and Business, 2011). His articles include “Sovereign and State: A Democratic Theory of Sovereign Immunity,” forthcoming in Texas Law Review; “Value Democracy as the Basis for Viewpoint Neutrality,” in Northwestern Law Review (2013); “A Transformative Theory of Religious Freedom,” in Political Theory (2010); “When the State Speaks, What Should it Say? Democratic Persuasion and the Freedom of Expression,” in Perspectives on Politics (2010); and “The Politics of the Personal: A Liberal Approach,” in the American Political Science Review (2007).
Lizz Winstead on a woman’s right to choose. Lizz is one of the founders of Lady Parts Justice. LPJ is the first not safe for work, rapid response reproductive rights messaging hub that uses comedy, culture and digital media to sound an alarm about the terrifying erosion of reproductive access so people will get off their asses and reclaim their rights.
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Movie Critic Michael Snyder stops by to tell us why exactly the movie “Loving” will bring home so many Oscars. “Loving” is the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
Director: Jeff Nichols
Writer: Jeff Nichols
Stars: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton
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