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The End of the Beginning

The conservative legal movement is in the fourth inning, not the bottom of the ninth.

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Ilya Shapiro
Dec 14, 2025
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I was recently invited to participate in a symposium on the future of the conservative legal movement hosted by The American Mind, a publication of the Claremont Institute (where I was a Lincoln Fellow back in 2015). It began with a provocative call by Jesse Merriam for the movement to rethink its aims to meet the challenges of today. Here’s my contribu…

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