rationally BASED
Welcome to rationally BASED, a podcast about law and politics, on the edge. Law professors Josh Kleinfeld and Ilan Wurman, with co-host Kathryn Johnson, cover cutting-edge, and edgy, legal and political news, ideas, and developments from a conservative and based perspective.
rationally BASED
Latest Episodes
Episode 41 | Fake News and Foreign Voters
Two big new cases just hit the courts, and hosts Ilan Wurman, Kathryn Johnson, and Joshua Kleinfeld take them on. First, the President pulled the White House passes of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, saying: “The White House is not insti...
Episode 40 | Missouri’s Map Fight and the Gerrymandering Arms Race
Midterms are around the corner. Democrats have a shot at the House and Senate. And the maps that will decide those races are being fought in courtrooms as much as in legislatures. Hosts Kathryn Johnson, Joshua Kleinfeld, and Ilan Wurman take on...
Episode 39 | Woke Universities, Foreign Campus Radicals, & Free Speech
A public university is “We the People” spending our money on our children. A foreign student with a visa is a houseguest, not a relative.So why are judges telling states they cannot stop DEI dogma in public classrooms —...
Episode 38 | Conservatives Are Getting the Lindsay Clancy Case WRONG
Lindsay Clancy sent her husband out of the house, strangled their three children one by one, and then claimed a voice told her to do it. Was she insane? Eleven jurors voted to acquit. Has the jury system failed us?The conservative media...
Episode 37 | Family Reconciliation = Hiding Kids From Their Parents?!
Washington State’s “Family Reconciliation Act” — arguably the most Orwellian name in recent memory — requires shelters NOT to notify parents if runaway children say they want “gender-affirming treatment.” Meanwhile, the chief medical grou...