Opening Arguments
Opening Arguments Media LLC
Opening Arguments is a law show that helps you make sense of the news! Comedian Thomas Smith brings on legal analysts to help you understand not only current events, but also deeper legal concepts and areas!
The typical schedule will be M-W-F with Monday being a deep-dive, Wednesday being Thomas Takes the Bar Exam and patron shoutouts, and Friday being a rapid response to legal issues in the news!
The typical schedule will be M-W-F with Monday being a deep-dive, Wednesday being Thomas Takes the Bar Exam and patron shoutouts, and Friday being a rapid response to legal issues in the news!
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Opening Arguments podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 5 episodes
1984
George Orwell
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Call me American
Abdi Nor Iftin
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Bible
Various Authors
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Overruled
The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court
Damon Root
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The most dangerous man in America
Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD
Michael Chandler
Lawrence Lerew
Judith Ehrlich
Rick Goldsmith
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Democracy in chains
The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Nancy MacLean
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Beyond Vietnam
A Time To Break Silence
Edwin O. Reischauer
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Original Sin
President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Alex Thompson
Jake Tapper
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Magic of Recluse
book one
L.E. Modisette, Jr.
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
From Blood and Ash
deifoli assil
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Peril
Bob Woodward
Robert Costa
Robert Petkoff
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Conceivable Future
Megan Coleman
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
JD Vance
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Rule of Law, a very short introduction
Aziz Huq
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Blood and Ash series
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The plot against America
Senator Wheeler and the Forces Behind Him
David George Plotkin
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Tragedy of True Crime
Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us
John J. Lennon
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Fanny Hill
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
John Cleland
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Firebrand
the life of Dostoevsky
Henri Troyat
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Esperanza Rising
Pamela Muñoz Ryan
