This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in California v. Texas—a recent lawsuit bringing another challenge to the Affordable Care Act. This episode recaps the arguments and how the justices—including Justice Amy Coney Barrett—reacted to the arguments on both sides. Host Jeffrey Rosen was joined by two experts on the Affordable Care Act and the Constitution: Abbe Gluck of Yale Law School and Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute.

Authors Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett joined Jeffrey Rosen to discuss their book The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again. The authors shared what they learned tracing more than a century of American history, and expand upon their thesis that the country went from an individualistic “I” society to a more community-oriented “we” society, then back again.