In this episode:

• ISI’s Conservative Book of the Year Award Winner Daniel Mahoney and former attorney general and senator Jeff Sessions join the podcast for a live interview with Johnny about Dan’s book The Statesman as Thinker
• whether the Founders were too successful in setting up a system of checks and balances that ultimately undermined statesmanship of “great-souled men”
• the pathologies of American education, and the need for alternative institutions to excite the “life of the mind” and a serious commitment to the pursuit of truth

Texts Mentioned:

• The Statesman as Thinker by Daniel J. Mahoney
• The American Commonwealth by Lord James Bryce
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
• The Life of George Washington by John Marshall
• On Duties by Cicero
• His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis
• The Logic of Liberty by Michael Polanyi
• “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass
• Winston Churchill MIT Commencement Speech
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

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