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 John Inazu The Social Philosophers by Robert Nisbet The Sociological Tradition by Robert Nisbet NAACP v. Alabama Christian Legal Society versus Martinez Roberts v. Jaycees Buck v. Bell Bob Jones University v. United States Holt v. Hobbes Richard Garnett Steven Smith First Amendment Situations by Paul Horwitz