rationally BASED
Hosted by Ilan Wurman and Kathryn Johnson and Joshua Kleinfeld · Center of the American Experiment
4.7from 192 ratings
- 45
- Episodes
- 17
- Transcribed
- 192
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2026
- First episode
About rationally BASED
Welcome to rationally BASED, a podcast about law and politics, on the edge. Law professors Josh Kleinfeld and Ilan Wurman, with co-host Kathryn Johnson, cover cutting-edge, and edgy, legal and political news, ideas, and developments from a conservative and based perspective.
- Publisher
- Center of the American Experiment
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 Jan 2026
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
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17 of 45 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 42 | Civic Terrorism Is Not Protest
8 Oct 2026
Episode 41 | Can Trump Yank Press Passes?
1 Oct 2026
Episode 40 | Missouri’s Map Fight and the Gerrymandering Arms Race
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Episode 42 | Civic Terrorism Is Not Protest
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Weep. Give him the thumbs down. Give him the finger. Hand him a note. Refuse to serve him. What is that closer to? That is punishment of a concrete individual human being. Or think about like the campus mob surrounding Jewish students and screaming at them, screaming. You can see it on YouTube, screaming in individual faces. OK, that's not protest. That's menace. It's menace politics. Its purpose is to create fear. So the term I propose that we on the right stop start using and when we stop using the word protest, which is the left's word, civic terrorism. That's the term I propose. It's civic terrorism. […]
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