Biography
Tal Fortgang is an adjunct fellow of the Manhattan Institute.
Awards
Josh Blackman holds the Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law at South Texas College of Law and is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has authored three books, and his latest, An Introduction to Constitutional Law, was a top five bestseller on Amazon. He is a contributing editor to Civitas Outlook.
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The Current Battleline of the DEI Wars
The Academic “Resistance” Decries Government Interference
The Contents of Originalism
Harvard's Civil Rights Violations Run Deep
Congress Can Shore Up Anti-Terror Laws
American Education's Need for a New Founding
Combatting Antisemitism on Campus
The Arrival of Legal Traditionalism
Chemerinsky's Constitutional Wishlist