Left, Right, and Unwonted

We discuss Kevin Kruse's contribution to the 1619 Project - "Traffic"

We discuss Jeneen Interlandi's contribution to the 1619 Project - "A Broken Health Care System"

We discuss Matthew Desmond's contribution to the 1619 Project - "Capitalism"

We discuss the 1619 Project's main article - The Idea of America by Nikole Hannah-Jones

We discuss the 1619 Project's title page and introductory paragraph. But first, Luke drinks too much caffeine and stutters through his criticism of the use of the term "enslaved person" in place of "slave."

Morgan hosts a discussion of Carole Pateman's article The Fraternal Social Contract. Pateman argues the social contract is a fraternal pact that constitutes civil society as a patriarchal or masculine order. 

The introduction to a mini-series comparing the 1619 Project and the 1776 Commission Report. We discuss what makes good history, various perspectives on American historiography, and our own views of America's founding.

Luke and Lauren discuss the first chapter of Michael Huemer's book The Problem of Political Authority which argues in favor of philosophical anarchism

Lauren hosts a discussion of James Scott's article on State Simplifications: Nature, Space, and People

We briefly discuss our views on the concepts of right and left in politics, before moving on to a discussion of Quentin Skinner's essay entitled The State.