Living the American Dream

Ilya Shapiro ()
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Ilya Shapiro: Constitutional Studies, Manhattan Institute

Chapter Chapter 67 in Libertarian Autobiographies, 2023, pp 395-400 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract I’ll always be grateful to my parents for escaping Russia, so I wouldn’t have to grow up under communism or live under Putinism. I’d thought I was simply a conservative without religion, but Enlightenment thinkers and the Founding Fathers led me to see that “classical liberal” was more apt. Similarly, I preferred America’s “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” to Canada’s “peace, order, and good government.” Through college, law school, a judicial clerkship, law firms, and nearly 15 years at Cato, I burnished an interest in constitutional law. After a brush with cancel culture at Georgetown, I’ve adopted Solzhenitsyn’s mantra, “live not by lies.” All in all, I’m living the American Dream, hoping to leave the next generation a better legacy of liberty.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-29608-6_67

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