In this intimate interview with Martha Minow, the distinguished professor and leading legal scholar talks about the first Amendment, the “preconditions for a constitutional democracy,” the democratic deficit in the American project, her fondest memories from her tenure as Dean, the impact of her famous father Newton on her own life, why the jury is no longer out on the Internet’s early wishful thinking about future of “citizen journalism,” that infamous “vast wasteland” of American television, the ancient internecine battle of Rugelach vs Babka, why she’s a “hopeful pessimist,” why she’s bearish on the United States and very bearish on the Biden Presidency, and what she really thinks about Donald Trump.
Finally, Martha Minow