Beatrice Institute Podcast Clubs and the Court with Luke Sheahan
Luke Sheahan is an assistant professor of political science at Duquesne University and non-resident scholar at the program for research on religion and urban civil society at the University of Pennsylvania. He joins John to discuss his new book, Why Associations Matter: The Case for First Amendment Pluralism. Luke argues that there has been a fundamental misunderstanding of what associations are and that this has affected the Court’s ability to protect them. Luke talks about why we need to stop ignoring the assembly clause, social alienation in the modern world, and the relationship between sociology, philosophy, and political science.
Freedom of association
Membership
Expressive groups
Assembly clause versus the free speech clause
The work of John Inazu and Robert Nesbit
Freedom of association and civil rights
Textualism and dialectic
Links:
Why Associations Matter by Luke Sheahan
The Social Philosophers by Robert Nisbet
The Sociological Tradition by Robert Nisbet
Christian Legal Society versus Martinez