Non-Fiction: Samuel Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement
Lectures and conversations with historians, authors, and thinkers.
Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement is the first-ever biography of Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito, the conservative legal movement that shaped him, and the future of a country reshaped by originalism, by prize-winning journalist Peter Canellos.
Peter S. Canellos is the author of The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero, and the editor of the bestselling Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy. He served as executive editor at POLITICO, leading the newsroom during the 2016 presidential campaign, and the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe. He has also been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a recipient of the American Society of Newspaper Editors award in 2011 for excellence in editorial writing along with the 2022 George Polk Award, Robin Toner Award, and News Leaders Association Batten Medal for his writing about the Supreme Court.
Produced in partnership with The New York Historical
July 1, 2026 – September 9, 2026
Wednesdays, 7pm-8pm
July 1: National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America by Michael Auslin
July 8: All the Presidents' Money: How the Men Who Governed America Governed Their Money by Megan Gorman
July 15: Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln by Saladin Ambar
July 22: Angelica: For Love & Country in a Time of Revolution by Molly Beer
July 29: Liberation Summer: The Moment That Changed the Women's Movement and the Future of American Politics with Micki McElya
August 5: You Can’t Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson’s Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode with Her by Shannon McKenna Schmidt
August 12: To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right by Christopher Mathias
August 19: Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement by Peter S. Canellos
August 26: Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln by Matthew Pinsker
September 2: The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by
Garrett M. Graff
September 9: Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity by David Conrad-Pérez
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