Shows
Good CitizenMatthew BarzunMatthew Barzun reimagines leadership by breaking free of hierarchies. Formerly the U.S. ambassador to the U.K. and to Sweden, he is the author of The Power of Giving Away Power: How the Best Leaders Learn To Let Go.Find him at matthewbarzun.comFor more, visit goodcitizenpodcast.com.Follow us on Facebook @TRPresidentialLibraryInstagram @trlibraryX @TRPresLibrary.And sign up for our newsletter at trlibrary.com/newsletter to stay up-to-date on the TRPL!--Good Citizen is hosted by Ted Roosevelt...2025-02-0731 min
Federalist Society Speaker Series at UVA LawOriginalism 101 w/ Professors Larry Solum and Charles BarzunOriginalism may be the dominant theory of constitutional interpretation at the Supreme Court, but its adherents often have differing views on how exactly it should work and what outcomes should result. Our panel discusses the various strains of the theory of originalism and its mechanics, and they will also address its major critiques. 2024-09-121h 00
UVA LawLegal History at UVA LawProfessor Charles Barzun ’05 discusses UVA Law’s courses, programs and opportunities in legal history during an admitted students open house. (University of Virginia School of Law, March 15, 2024)2024-07-1214 min
UVA LawA Fireside Chat With A. E. Dick Howard ’61The Virginia Law Review hosts UVA Law professors A. E. Dick Howard '61 and Charles Barzun ’05 for a fireside chat detailing Howard's career. (University of Virginia School of Law, March 21, 2024)2024-04-021h 00
American Conservative UniversityDennis Prager talks to Charles Murray on His Book Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950Dennis Prager talks to Charles Murray on His Book Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950
This is an encore show from our ACU archives.
About the book:
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 by Charles Murray– 2004
A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence.
"At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as t...2024-03-0735 minAmerican Conservative UniversityCharles Murray. Over 90% of Human Accomplishment Came from Christian Europeans.Charles Murray. Over 90% of Human Accomplishment Came from Christian Europeans.
Book- Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 by Charles Murray
This is an encore presentation from our ACU Archives.
About the book-
A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence.
"At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them.'
So...2023-06-1435 min
UVA LawA Look at ‘The Proof’Duke University law professor Lisa Kern Griffin, UVA Law lecturer and U.S. Judge Jed S. Rakoff, and Professor Gregory Mitchell discuss Professor Frederick Schauer’s book, “The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else.” Professor Charles Barzun ’05 moderated, and Dean Risa Goluboff introduced the panelists. (University of Virginia School of Law, Sept. 8, 2022)2022-09-201h 06
The Private Law PodcastCharles Barzun on the Common LawCharles Barzun is a law professor at the University of Virginia. His areas of interest include constitutional law, torts, evidence and the history of legal thought. In this episode, we talk about the common law method, Ronald Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, and the internal/external divide in legal theory.2021-03-0953 min
UVA LawScholars Explore ‘Law in American History, Vol. III’A panel of scholars discuss UVA Law professor G. Edward White’s final volume in his “Law in American History” series. The panel included professors Jack Landman Goldsmith, Harvard Law School; Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara; and Victoria Nourse, Georgetown University Law Center. UVA Law professor Charles Barzun served as moderator, and Dean Risa Goluboff introduced the panel. (University of Virginia School of Law, Oct. 11, 2019)2019-10-161h 21
Oral ArgumentEpisode 179: SnowglobeJoe becomes the guest guest and Mike Madison the guest host, as we talk about Joe's new research into the web of law and what citations tell us about what law means. As one might expect for a show which is ostensibly about legal theory but actually, as all good argunauts know, an extended meditation on Being Joe, this is a very special episode of Oral Argument.
This show’s links:
Joe Miller's faculty profile and writing
Mike Madison’s website, writing, and blog
Joseph Miller, Law's Semantic Self-Portrait: Discerning Doctrine with Co-Citation Networks and Keywords
Jose...2018-09-091h 26Oral ArgumentEpisode 170: The StartersWe talk with Charles Barzun about what it means to be a legal pragmatist. But first we start with the ending and then talk John Hodgman, the F words (Framers and Founders), the old 2x debate, and finally (at 13:31) about legal pragmatism and its many senses. We connect the topic to interpretation, ethics, the age of our legal asteroid, families, infidelity, rupture, continuity, Justice Souter, quietism agonistes, and more.
This show’s links:
Charles Barzun’s faculty profile and writing
Charles Barzun, Three Forms of Legal Pragmatism
About Shane Carruth, director of Primer and Upstream Color
Judg...2018-05-271h 36Oral ArgumentEpisode 146: Somehow in the MiddleWith Charles Barzun, we discuss Justice Souter and the nature of legal justification. But we take the long way around to get there, starting with some of Souter’s opinions, moving on to philosophy – the nature of moral reasoning and its relation to fact and intuition – and then back to legal theory and Charles’s insight concerning Justice Souter’s jurisprudence.
This show’s links:
Charles Barzun’s faculty profile and writing
Charles Barzun, Justice Souter’s Common Law
Justice Souter’s discussion of Plessy and the role of history in judging (watch from minute one until about minute...2017-09-241h 26
UVA LawBook Panel on Ted White's "Law in American History, Vol. II"A panel of scholars discusses Professor G. Edward White's "Law in American History, Vol. II," published by Oxford University Press. The panelists are Logan Sawyer (University of Georgia), Chuck McCurdy (UVA) and Barbara Welke (University of Minnesota), in addition to White. Dean Risa Goluboff introduces the panel and Charles Barzun moderates the question-and-answer session at the end. (University of Virginia School of Law, Nov. 10, 2016)2016-11-171h 36Oral ArgumentEpisode 117: CoarseningThe election. And then viewer mail on media for scholarship and ideas, suspense and emotional salience in judicial opinions, and a little more.
This show’s links:
Oral Argument 106: Legal Asteroid
Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
David Souter on the Danger of America’s “pervasive civic ignorance” (video)
Oral Argument 105: Bismarck’s Raw Material (guest Tim Meyer)
Oral Argument 112: Quasi-Narrative (guest Simon Stern)
Popov v. Hayashi
Oyez page for NFIB v. Sebelius (select Opinion Announcement, part 1, for the relevant portion of the hand-down)
Oral Argument 113: The Entrails of Fowl (guest Charles Barzun)
Paul Horwitz, On “The Tr...2016-11-111h 06Oral ArgumentEpisode 116: Co-Authorial PrivilegeWe’ve been asking for a true originalist to take us to the woodshed for all our prior doubts and dismissiveness of originalism as a method of interpretation. Enter Will Baude.
This show’s links:
William Baude’s faculty profile and writing
About Ben Linus
First Mondays
Legal Theory 101 (and corresponding blog post)
William Baude and Stephen Sachs, Originalism’s Bite
William Baude and Stephen Sachs, The Law of Interpretation
William Baude, Is Originalism Our Law?
Oral Argument 113: The Entrails of Fowl (guest Charles Barzun)
Lawrence Solum, Semantic Originalism
Stephen Sachs, Originalism as a Theory of Legal Ch...2016-11-041h 18Oral ArgumentEpisode 113: The Entrails of FowlIs originalism required by our law? We chat with Charles Barzun about his critique of the inclusive originalists, the new movement to claim that an originalist interpretive method is not only a good choice among possible methods but is the method which is mandated by a positivist approach to our law.
This show’s links:
Charles Barzun’s faculty profile and writing
Charles Barzun, The Positive U-Turn
William Baude and Stephen Sachs, The Law of Interpretation
William Baude, Is Originalism Our Law?
Oral Argument 98: T3 Jedi (guests Jeremy Kessler and David Pozen)
Scott Shapiro, Legality (Amazon and...2016-10-011h 25
UVA LawProfessors Discuss Exam StrategiesProfessors Leslie Kendrick, Charles Barzun, Toby Heytens, George Cohen, George Geis and Caleb Nelson offer tips about preparing for and taking law school exams. (University of Virginia School of Law, Nov. 16, 2015)2015-11-1922 min