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...

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September 11, 2026

Penna Dexter

Muslim Girl Scouts

Girl Scouts around the country are winning awards and earning patches for promoting the Islamic faith.

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September 11, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Twenty-five years ago, nineteen al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes in an attack on America. Two planes struck the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. A third plane hit the Penta...

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September 10, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Gospel of Envy

Winston Churchill once explained that “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” Colonel Allen West begins his commentary on the “Gospel of Envy” with th...

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