In this interview, John Finn discusses topics such as: attending Nasson College, Georgetown Law, and Princeton for a PhD in political science and public law; friendship with Clement Vose; beginning teaching at Wesleyan in 1986; learning style of Wesleyan students; State and Society course; food related courses in the political science curriculum; faculty committees; dissertation research at Princeton; recent work on threats to the Constitution; taking sabbatical and attending the French Culinary Institute; writing a book on omelets; connections through education; expectations for families at the dinner table; Hugo Black lecture series; a donor attempting to endow a First Amendment course; Halpert Fund; Justice Scalia’s visit to Wesleyan; visiting Chief Justice Roy Moore and the Southern Poverty Law Center with students; taking a class to a $2,500 meal in Hartford with the Halpert Fund; the “speech codes”; the chalking policy; retirement from Wesleyan; criticizing the Academic Council; attempting to establish a parental leave policy; freedom of speech; student body becoming more conventional; attitude towards Welseyan