On today's show 
– Keri Leigh Merritt, Ph.D., historian and writer; she is the author of "Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South" (2017) and "An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America" (2026)
– Leah Litman, professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School, author of "Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes," and co-host of the "Strict Scrutiny" podcast