On episode fourteen, Charles discusses the alarming sight of politicians and activists discussing issues they'd never considered until yesterday as if they'd been working on them for 50 years straight. After that, he talks to law professor Jonathan Adler about the limits of federal power, and discusses the newfangled Jacksonville Jaguars, who are now in the NFL postseason.
In this fourteenth episode of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast, Charles proposes that you should be deeply suspicious of anyone who picks up a cause, and, ten minutes later, sounds as if they’ve been fighting in favor of it for their entire life. Such people are impressionable, excitable, and ridiculous—and, ultimately, dangerous. After that, he asks Jonathan Adler, of Case Western Reserve University School of Law how on earth we can square the work of the Consumer Product Safety Commission with the limits on the federal government that are imposed by the Constitution's enumerated powers doctrine. And, finally, it's time for the Color Supplement, which, this week, features a timely Jacksonville Jaguars Update.
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