{"podcast":{"title":"Uncertain Things","slug":"uncertain-things-1365822","podcast_index_feed_id":1365822,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/55152.rss","website_url":"https://uncertain.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/55152/d5aa3021bd2e0c5c8c26c93af46f588a.jpg","author":"Uncertain Things","episode_count":115,"summary":"Everything is broken. Now what?","last_synced_at":"2026-07-01T06:18:18.631352+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncertain-things-1365822"},"episode":{"title":"The Law Is How We Deal With Our Mistakes (Alan Dershowitz)","slug":"the-law-is-how-we-deal-with-our-mistakes-alan-dershowitz","published_at":"2025-07-01T15:12:40+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncertain-things-1365822/the-law-is-how-we-deal-with-our-mistakes-alan-dershowitz","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncertain-things-1365822","url":"https://uncertain.substack.com/p/alan-dershowitz","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/167207709/b42cd6addb4897e48d20eb4d3a1145b4.mp3","summary":"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","meta_description":"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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2361,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/uncertain-things-1365822/episodes/the-law-is-how-we-deal-with-our-mistakes-alan-dershowitz/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncertain-things-1365822/the-law-is-how-we-deal-with-our-mistakes-alan-dershowitz.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}