{"podcast":{"title":"Amarica's Constitution","slug":"amarica-s-constitution-3511925","podcast_index_feed_id":3511925,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/amaricasconstitution/feed.xml","website_url":"https://akhilamar.com/podcast-2/","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/10689398/AC_1_488KB79mm8.jpg","author":"Akhil Reed Amar","episode_count":287,"summary":"Professor Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University and one of the nation’s leading authorities on the Constitution, offers weekly in-depth discussions on the most urgent and fascinating constitutional issues of our day. He is joined by host Andy Lipka and guests drawn from other top experts including Bob Woodward, Lawrence Lessig, Neal Katyal, Michael Gerhardt, and many more.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T04:18:43.201136+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/amarica-s-constitution-3511925"},"episode":{"title":"JFK's Wall","slug":"jfk-s-wall","published_at":"2026-05-13T04:48:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/amarica-s-constitution-3511925/jfk-s-wall","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/amarica-s-constitution-3511925","url":"https://amaricasconstitution.podbean.com/e/jfks-wall/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/czx496nadryig9q8/278_JFKs_Wall.mp3","summary":"Our journey through the centuries of religious practice, attitudes, and constitutionalism has reached the 20th century, when several presidential elections set mileposts for the American religious debate. The first major party Catholic candidate, Al Smith, met the worst sort of vitriol and prejudice, and was destroyed by it. This cast a shadow over the later campaign of John F. Kennedy, and he answered it in a speech that we analyze and place in context, even as we thrill to the great man’s voice one more time. We then trace a line from that speech, through several Supreme Court memberships, to the American cultural and constitutional religious landscape as the 21st century dawns. Fittingly, perhaps, one of the jurists who has been prominent on this issue, Justice Thomas, celebrates a milestone on the Court. CLE is available for lawyers and judges from podcast.njsba.com.","meta_description":"Our journey through the centuries of religious practice, attitudes, and constitutionalism has reached the 20th century, when several presidential election…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4421,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/amarica-s-constitution-3511925/episodes/jfk-s-wall/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/amarica-s-constitution-3511925/jfk-s-wall.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}