Ilya Shapiro

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Director of Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies — at the Cato Institute

Ilya Shapiro is the director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute and publisher of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Before joining Cato, he was a special assistant/adviser to the Multi‐National Force in Iraq on rule‐of‐law issues and practiced at Patton Boggs and Cleary Gottlieb. Shapiro is an author, speaker, has testified before Congress and state legislatures and has filed more than 300 amicus curiae “friend of the court” briefs in the Supreme Court.

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Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court

Ilya Shapiro, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies, takes readers inside the unknown history of fiercely partisan judici...

Featured on: Thursday, September 24, 2020

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October 28, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Marx and Moody

Marxist ideas are surfacing all over the world. We need to educate, especially the younger generation, about the toxic ideas developed by Karl Marx and spread through nearly every institution.

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October 27, 2026

Kerby Anderson

AI Fears

Roger Kimball begins his column in The Spectator about artificial intelligence with this admission. “It’s not often that we get a ringside seat to the Birth of a Narrative.” As you might imagine, the...

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October 26, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Rubio in Athens

Earlier this month Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an important speech in Athens with the acropolis in the background. The Wall Street Journal editors described it as the speech of the year....

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