The Rockefeller Center’s recent “Law and Democracy: The United States at 250” event featuring Sarah Isgur and David French is now available as an episode of Isgur and French’s influential podcast, Advisory Opinions (AO). The episode, titled “Blaming the Judiciary,” revisits the conversation that took place at Dartmouth on January 29, 2026.
Hosted as the 2025–26 Stephen R. Volk ’57 Lecture, the event brought French, an AO co-host and New York Times columnist and bestselling author, and Isgur, SCOTUSblog editor and ABC News legal analyst, to campus. Isgur and French visited with Dartmouth students and faculty throughout the day and held a public conversation about “The Supreme Court and American Democracy,” moderated by Benjamin Valentino, Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government and Associate Dean for the Social Sciences and Herschel Nachlis, Senior Associate Director and Senior Policy Fellow at the Rockefeller Center and Research Assistant Professor of Government.
The AO episode that came out of the conversation can be found here:
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/blaming-the-judiciary/
The Rockefeller Center is grateful to the many Dartmouth partners who helped bring Isgur and French and AO to Hanover, including Dartmouth Dialogues, the Ethics Institute, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Office of the Associate Dean for the Social Sciences.