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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July 29, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Superior Civilization

A recent commentary in The American Spectator argues that “The West is a Superior Civilization.”

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July 28, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Life in the Lab?

Have we created life in the lab? That was the implication from some of the news stories that declared that scientists have built a cell from scratch. That might be overstating the case a bit, but what...

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July 27, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Teen Takeovers

Young people are rampaging in cities across this country, and Heather Mac Donald has written about why this is taking place and what we can do to stop it. She begins by documenting what happened when...

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