In this episode of pplpod, we explore the complex legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the Civil War veteran who became one of the most influential and widely cited Supreme Court justices in American history. We trace his journey from the battlefields of Antietam and Fredericksburg, where he was wounded three times, to his record-breaking tenure on the Supreme Court, from which he retired at age 90,.

Join us as we break down Holmes's pivotal contributions to American jurisprudence, including:

• Legal Realism: How Holmes challenged the formalists of his day by arguing that "the life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience",.

• Free Speech: His evolution from establishing the "clear and present danger" test in Schenck v. United States to his famous defense of the "competitio ...