The Court of History

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview investigative reporter, Joe Conason, author of “The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism,” in the second part of a series on political corruption, exploring the cases of Susan Collins, Mike Collins, Ashley Moody, and other Republican senate candidates.

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Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview investigative reporter, Joe Conason, author of “The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism,” on how the corruption issue runs through the Trump presidency, the conservative movement and the Republican Party from Roy Cohn down to the midterm election campaigns of GOP Senate candidates.

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Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz, in part two of a two-part series, unpack “Supremacy: How Rule By the Court Replaced Government by the People,” with co-authors Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan, Harvard Law School professors, on how judicial supremacy has been used to strike down progressive legislation and impose reactionary power from Reconstruction to the present.

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Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz, in part one of a two-part series, unpack “Supremacy: How Rule By the Court Replaced Government by the People,” with co-authors Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan, Harvard Law School professors, discussing how the doctrine of judicial supremacy beginning with Marbury v. Madison ran through the Dred Scott decision through the undoing of Reconstruction, and the sidelining of the constitution...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Sidney’s article in The Guardian, “Ken Paxton’s Christian identity politics obscure a history of scandal,” going deep into the origins of the religious righ movement founded by sexual abusers that created Paxton. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/30/ken-paxton-christian-scandal Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1

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Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz, in part two of a two-part series, speak about the significance of parallels and lessons to be drawn from history, and interview Timothy Ryback on his new book, “53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled Democracy,” on Hitler used the pretext of the Reichstag Fire to suppress civil liberties, free speech and political opposition, and staged an inside coup to seize absolute power. Subscribe: https...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz, in part one of a two-part series, speak about the significance of parallels and lessons to be drawn from history, and interview Timothy Ryback on his new book, “53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled Democracy,” on how Hitler seized power, destroyed a free press, coopted corporate interests, and used the Weimar constitution to destroy its democracy. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAF...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Mike Podhorzer, former political director of the AFL-CIO, on the greatest danger ahead with Trump in the midterms, the possibility of another Bush v. Gore repeat in a state over a Senate seat, and how John Roberts has skewed the Court to tilt elections. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.co...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak in the third part of a series with Jacob Weisberg, author of “Profiles In Cowardice,” on the case studies in collaboration of Brad Karp, chair of the Paul Weiss law firm, and Sian Beilock, president of Dartmouth College, and how they betrayed the values of their institutions and rationalized it all. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Jacob Weisberg, author of “Profiles In Cowardice,” on his collaboration with authoritarianism and the Trump regime, and how he rationalizes it. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1

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In part two, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Susan Neiman, the moral philosopher, about her new book, “Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era,” how evil works, and the ways to combat it

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Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Susan Neiman, the moral philosopher, about her new book, “Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era,” and why the point is beyond cruelty.

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In the fifth part of a series, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview David Corn, author of “How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America,” on the manufacture of the Hunter Biden pseudo-scandal involving Russian agents, the exposure of Alexander Smirnow, the Russian agent, smearing the Bidens, the collapse of Trump’s conspiracy theory blaming Ukraine instead of Russia for interfere...

In the fourth part of a series, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview David Corn, author of “How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America,” who reveals how Kash Patel participated in a Russian disinformation campaign and pocketed $25,000, how the Trump smear campaign to destroy Joe Biden in 2020 operated in tandem with Russian intelligence, and how Trump attempted to blackmail Ukriainia...

In the third part of a series, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview David Corn, author of “How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America,” to expose Trump’s invention of the “Russia Hoax” to coverup how Putin helped elect him, how he discredited the Mueller Report, manipulated the Washington press corps, and pushed aside the devastating Senate Intelligence Committee Re...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Sidney’s column in the Guardian on Trump’s “lowest stage of imperialism,” his grift in Venezuela, plot to seize Greenland and trade war with Canada, throwing the Republicans overboard.

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In the second part of a series, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview David Corn, author of “How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America,” to reveal the truth of Trump’s collusion, the Steele Dossier, Trump’s frantic effort to cover-up, and the Republicans who aided and abetted  him.

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In the first part of a series, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz interview David Corn, author of “How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America,” on Putin’s asymmetric warfare against the US election in 2016 to elect Trump, Putin’s intelligence infrastrcture, his break-in to the Democratic Party to damage Hillary Clinton, Trump as a Russian asset, and Putin’s ally on the insi...

Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Norm Ornstein, top political scientist, on the Republican implosion in the polls, Trump’s negative image, his economic ignorance and failure, Elon Musk’s financing of the GOP, the Democratic challenge to unify.

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