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John Fabian Witt

John Fabian Witt teaches at Yale Law School and is author of The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America, to be published by Simon & Schuster on October 14.

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September 24, 2025
John Fabian Witt
Free Speech Is the Antidote to Political Violence
The zealous safeguarding of individual expression is a recent innovation. What sparked it? The need to curb violent societal upheaval.
June 24, 2024
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Is the United States Too Devoted to the Constitution?
A new book argues that worship of the Constitution has distorted our politics.
August 26, 2022
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The Justice Who Wanted the Supreme Court to Get Out of the Way
Felix Frankfurter warned that politicians, not the courts, should make policy.
April 7, 2020
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How the Republican Party Took Over the Supreme Court
The 50-year effort to advance a conservative legal agenda
October 1, 2019
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The Shrinking Legacy of a Supreme Court Justice
Why veneration of Oliver Wendell Holmes is in decline
January 7, 2019
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The Operative
How John Marshall built the Supreme Court around his political agenda

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