The Constitutionalist

The Constitutionalist

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The Constitutionalist episodes

  • Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court w/ B.J. Dobski

    Bernard J. Dobski is Professor of Political Science at Assumption University. His department bio can be found here: https://www.assumption.edu/people-and-departments/directory/bernard-j-dobski-phd

    The article under discussion is: Bernard J. Dobski and Benjamin A. Kleinerman, "'We should see certain things yet, let us hope and believe': Technology, Sex, and Politics in Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee" in Review of Politics, Vol. 69:4 (Fall 2007)

    1 hr 9 min
  • Bonus Episode - "The Crisis Presidency" - Constitution Day Address @ IACTL

    You can learn more about the Institute of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership at the University of Toledo by going to our website. https://www.utoledo.edu/institute/constitution/

     Ben's forthcoming book, The Crisis Presidency: How Emergencies Make or Break the President, will be released in early 2027 and is currently available for preorder on Amazon.

    28 min
  • Bonus Episode: "The Apple of Gold in the Picture of Silver" - Fireside Chat at The University of Toledo
    This bonus episode is a recording of a Fireside Chat that took place during Ben's week-long honors seminar with students in the University of Toledo's Institute of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership. The subject of the discussion is Abraham Lincoln's metaphor for the relationship between the Declaration of the Independence and the Constitution: "an apple of gold in a picture of silver." Emceeing the event is Michael Gonzalez, Senior Associate Director at IACTL.
    54 min
  • Gordon Wood and America at 250 w/ C. Bradley Thompson

    C. Bradley Thompson has a web page which outlines his scholarship, teaching, and his leadership in broader Civics movement, which can be found here: https://cbradleythompson.com/about/

    The Snow Institute for the Study of Capitalism can be found here: https://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/capitalism/sisc/ 

    His most recent book is America's Revolutionary Mind: A Morel History of the American Revolution and the Declaration that Defined It, out with Encounter Books.

    A leading expert on the political thought of John Adams, he has written John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty. with University Press of Kansas.

    He has also written, w/ Yaron Brook, Neoconservatism: An Obituary of an Idea.

    1 hr 11 min
  • Martin Diamond's "The Revolution of Sober Expectations" w/ Jason Jividen

    The opening sequence is an excerpt of the live recording of Martin Diamonds presentation from 1976 in Philadelphia. The entire speech can be view here: https://youtu.be/CWnLpXcVArE?si=33ikgnZcklmC9r0v

    The transcript of the speech can be read here: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/BicentenUSA02.pdf?x10619

    Diamonds "Contemporary Thinkers" page: https://contemporarythinkers.org/martin-diamond/

    Here is an interview about Diamond with Bill Schambra: https://youtu.be/t5OIud2tvC0?si=CkM3J6BE1ZA-_Bhw 

    Jason Jividen's faculty page at St. Vincent: https://www.stvincent.edu/directory/profiles/jason-jividen.html

    He is the author of Claiming Lincoln: Progressivism, Equality, and the Battle for Lincoln's Legacy in Presidential Rhetoric https://www.amazon.com/Claiming-Lincoln-Progressivism-Equality-Presidential-ebook/dp/B07X4TMF16?ref_=ast_author_dp&th=1&psc=1

    He is the editor of Populists and Progressives: Core Documents. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/product/populists-and-progressives-2/ 

    42 min
  • No Country for Old Men w/ Carson Holloway

    Carson Holloway's bio on the UNO page can be found here: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-arts-and-sciences/political-science/about-us/directory/carson-holloway.php 

    His essay, "Tradition, Demonic Evil, and Despair in No Country for Old Men" appears in a volume he coedited with Micah Watson, Faith and Film: Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe, which can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Film-Faith-Struggle-Politics-Literature/dp/1666934046

    His books include

    - Hamilton and Jefferson in the Washington Adminstration: Completing the Founding or Betraying the Founding? https://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-versus-Jefferson-Washington-Administration/dp/1107521114/ref=sr_1_3?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.nIsITDFSXSg8e-EBFfniHViHFBDYxWINMmKMUOoBUhiWYXs3Y0f2Ww7MkUSI3z5uwAmCKFMWpmr6mQ-qycPiPw4j3GytJNzNwHsmNkWFTXjFV4BHzYlqdjctLXWLPd7NbKxedocO-n6nSj3nAopgZCSm7HYZkLNmKcgZ80Mk2FAbXVosZq6tHg1hDH2pwjxtAK7LsTP9MVJOdRILQT1TCTVO66wm-pOWBvU7193w6Sg.vftOYXmhIHsMZKl4srd_GBDb89zYpMTYycjbW6cNf9s&dib_tag=se&qid=1790651121&refinements=p_27%3ACarson+Holloway&s=books&sr=1-3&text=Carson+Holloway

    - The Way of Life: John Paul II and the Challenge of Liberal Modernity. https://www.amazon.com/Way-Life-Challenge-Liberal-Modernity/dp/1932792961/ref=sr_1_7?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.nIsITDFSXSg8e-EBFfniHViHFBDYxWINMmKMUOoBUhiWYXs3Y0f2Ww7MkUSI3z5uwAmCKFMWpmr6mQ-qycPiPw4j3GytJNzNwHsmNkWFTXjFV4BHzYlqdjctLXWLPd7NbKxedocO-n6nSj3nAopgZCSm7HYZkLNmKcgZ80Mk2FAbXVosZq6tHg1hDH2pwjxtAK7LsTP9MVJOdRILQT1TCTVO66wm-pOWBvU7193w6Sg.vftOYXmhIHsMZKl4srd_GBDb89zYpMTYycjbW6cNf9s&dib_tag=se&qid=1790651121&refinements=p_27%3ACarson+Holloway&s=books&sr=1-7&text=Carson+Holloway 

    - All Shook up: Reason, Passion, and Politics. https://www.amazon.com/All-Shook-Up-Passion-Politics/dp/1890626333/ref=sr_1_6?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.nIsITDFSXSg8e-EBFfniHViHFBDYxWINMmKMUOoBUhiWYXs3Y0f2Ww7MkUSI3z5uwAmCKFMWpmr6mQ-qycPiPw4j3GytJNzNwHsmNkWFTXjFV4BHzYlqdjctLXWLPd7NbKxedocO-n6nSj3nAopgZCSm7HYZkLNmKcgZ80Mk2FAbXVosZq6tHg1hDH2pwjxtAK7LsTP9MVJOdRILQT1TCTVO66wm-pOWBvU7193w6Sg.vftOYXmhIHsMZKl4srd_GBDb89zYpMTYycjbW6cNf9s&dib_tag=se&qid=1790651121&refinements=p_27%3ACarson+Holloway&s=books&sr=1-6&text=Carson+Holloway 

    - w/ Paul Dehart, Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith. https://www.amazon.com/Reason-Revelation-Civic-Order-Philosophy-ebook/dp/B07WPYD6VT/ref=sr_1_9?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.nIsITDFSXSg8e-EBFfniHViHFBDYxWINMmKMUOoBUhiWYXs3Y0f2Ww7MkUSI3z5uwAmCKFMWpmr6mQ-qycPiPw4j3GytJNzNwHsmNkWFTXjFV4BHzYlqdjctLXWLPd7NbKxedocO-n6nSj3nAopgZCSm7HYZkLNmKcgZ80Mk2FAbXVosZq6tHg1hDH2pwjxtAK7LsTP9MVJOdRILQT1TCTVO66wm-pOWBvU7193w6Sg.vftOYXmhIHsMZKl4srd_GBDb89zYpMTYycjbW6cNf9s&dib_tag=se&qid=1790651121&refinements=p_27%3ACarson+Holloway&s=books&sr=1-9&text=Carson+Holloway

    - w/ Bradford P. Wilson, The Political Writings of George Washington. https://www.amazon.com/Political-Writings-George-Washington-1754-1788-ebook/dp/B0CCJYZJ3Q/ref=sr_1_6?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.zp_laVS0nZpdPpdm4cNdP8ff1IE9MDkCWBBsNLj5EqShYe4SWZv1xOYGsW_1YOPjKL9U7YwJveHJyMzigAkoqYhPlQDr16lqRGLRHki1ZjqjA-ydlv6p2hpuid7jppPL.gSwKTXZ0OsoxQQpN3Ezj1OW52B9iar3LPp8qKafNVIo&dib_tag=se&qid=1790651628&refinements=p_27%3ABradford+P.+Wilson&s=digital-text&sr=1-6&text=Bradford+P.+Wilson 

    - w/ Bradford P. Wilson, The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton. https://www.amazon.com/Political-Writings-Alexander-Hamilton-ebook/dp/B076P9RG2T/ref=sr_1_10?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.nIsITDFSXSg8e-EBFfniHViHFBDYxWINMmKMUOoBUhiWYXs3Y0f2Ww7MkUSI3z5uwAmCKFMWpmr6mQ-qycPiPw4j3GytJNzNwHsmNkWFTXjFV4BHzYlqdjctLXWLPd7NbKxedocO-n6nSj3nAopgZCSm7HYZkLNmKcgZ80Mk2FAbXVosZq6tHg1hDH2pwjxtAK7LsTP9MVJOdRILQT1TCTVO66wm-pOWBvU7193w6Sg.vftOYXmhIHsMZKl4srd_GBDb89zYpMTYycjbW6cNf9s&dib_tag=se&qid=1790651617&refinements=p_27%3ACarson+Holloway&s=books&sr=1-10&text=Carson+Holloway 

    1 hr 4 min

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The Constitutionalist is a podcast cohosted by Professor Benjamin Kleinerman, the RW Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and Founder and Editor of The Constitutionalist Blog…