# The Law Is How We Deal With Our Mistakes (Alan Dershowitz)

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Podcast: [Uncertain Things](https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncertain-things-1365822)
Published: 2025-07-01T15:12:40+00:00
Episode link: https://uncertain.substack.com/p/alan-dershowitz
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## Resource

Alan Dershowitz is one of the most prolific legal scholars (and civil rights litigators) in this country of ours. In his latest book, The Preventive State , he takes the first step in developing the jurisprudence of what Philip K. Dick called precrime . Dershowitz argues that we need a better — and more transparent — legal system for calculating how many civil liberties we’re willing to sacrifice in order to prevent potential harm. He and Adaam debate what such a system would look like, what’s at stake of being lost, where do rights even come from, and whether the law is a rebellion against God. On the agenda : -Starting a conversation while canceled -False positives and false negatives -Kant in the streets, Bentham in the sheets (or: the Straussian case for legal ambiguity) -Our rights come from our wrongs -AI paving the path to Omelas -The Talmudic rebellion Also: - Read Adaam’s piece on Jewish Law as the triumph against divine totalitarianism Uncertain Things is hosted and produced by Adaam James Levin-Areddy and Vanessa M. Quirk. For more doomsday thoughts, subscribe to: http://uncertain.substack.com. Get full access to Uncertain Things at uncertain.substack.com/subscribe

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