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Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers episodes
- Federalist 18 - The surface informs that underneath, underneath is lacking
Continuing with the question, "How did the writers of the Federalist Papers imagine America," Steven and David are suddenly distracted by a related question: "How did the ancient Athenians imagine Greece?" Along the way, everybody also learns what "Amphictyonic" means.
1 hr 3 min - Federalist 17 - Put it in your heart where tomorrow shines
Steven and David welcome their friend Gabriella Wilke from Commonweal Magazine to help them parse out the rhetoric and promise of Federalist 17
57 min - Federalist 16 - Hear the howl of the rope, a question
In which Steven and David get distracted by an earnest detour into the jurisprudence of Anthony Scalia
56 min - Federalist 15 - The voices talking somewhere in the house
As Steven often reminds us, politics is an endless conversation
54 min - Federalist 14 - Living inside, living inside, near wild heaven
James Madison makes the case that we need to think locally
46 min - Federalist 13 - To liberty and honor under the honor roll
Hamilton asks, how do we avoid being attacked by our enemies, and how do we avoid becoming slaves to each other?
58 min - Federalist 12 - Gentlemen don't get caught, cages under cage.
Steven and David look at Federalist 12, where Thomas Jefferson suggests that if America moves from farm work to manufacturing, we risk becoming slaves. It was a weird time.
57 min - Federalist 11 - Rivers shift, oceans part, and mountains drift
The Value of Union to Commerce and the Advantages of a Navy - Alexander Hamilton
53 min - Federalist 10 - Things get around to taking place. It's not a waste of time.
James Madison - The Size and Variety of the Union as a Check on Faction
We continue our journey. We are hope, despite the times.
1 hr 1 min - Federalist X - Jefferson, I think we're lost
Steven and David offer you what, back in the eighties, we would have called "a very special episode."
52 min
About Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers
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Steven Millies is a political scientist. David Dault is a philosopher. They are reading through The Federalist Papers, one by one, and talking about them.