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The Scholar Running for Congress Who Wants to Overturn America's Legal Foundations

How a Tolkien essay led to a conversation about law, collapse, and what comes after refusal

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Genny Harrison
Jan 07, 2026
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The congressional candidate who found me through a Tolkien essay wants to do something no one in American politics will say out loud: he wants to overturn the legal foundations of the United States. Not reform them. Not revise them. Overturn them.

Steven Schwartzberg, a 63-year-old scholar with a PhD from Yale and a book praised by Noam Chomsky, is running for Congress in …

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