This is a really special evening for me because i am welcoming my dear old friend frank foer, editor of the new republic. Frank and i have known each other since 2000 when he first came to the new republic as a brilliant young writer from u. S. News. He established himself early on as the magazines most thoughtful and penetrating commentator and was tapped as editor in 2006. He briefly left and came back in 2012 where he has presided over a renaissance of this extraordinary magazine that i love so much and have been lucky enough to work at since 1991 when i joined them as my first job out of law school. I was hired as Legal Affairs editor by Andrew Sullivan who was the editor at a time. This was due to no great shakes on my part, but only because i had gone to college with andrew. I like to say on the Harriet Miers of legal journalism. Its pure nepotism but its the luckiest of my life because it launched this extraordinary career in journalism at this beautiful magazine and led to what
Future of the magazine. This is one hour 20 minutes of stop [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] journal cspan. Org welcome to the National Constitution center. Im jeffrey rosen. Im the president of this special constitution center. Lets recited together this is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. [applause] that is our inspiring congressional motto. Its a cult. It is a constitutional cult and its such a thrill to be here in this wonderful place. This is a really special evening for me because i am welcoming my dear old friend frank foer editor of the new republic. Frank and i have known each other since 2000 when he first came to the new republic as a brilliant young writer from u. S. News stop he established himself early on as the magazines most thoughtful and penetrating comm
The article is here; the Introduction: Accounts of modern free speech law typically begin in a moment of pragmatic optimism about the value of free speech in…