James Buchanan believed neutrality would preserve peace. Instead, it emboldened extremism and fractured the nation. This episode explores how restraint, legalism, and fear of confrontation quietly picked sides in America’s most dangerous moment.

James Buchanan believed neutrality would preserve peace. Instead, it emboldened extremism and fractured the nation. This episode explores how restraint, legalism, and fear of confrontation quietly picked sides in America’s most dangerous moment.

When Neutrality Chooses a Side: James Buchanan and Presidential Paralysis

Not Founders – Failures Podcast is a history podcast about leadership that didn’t work.While most business and leadership shows obsess over founders, visionaries, and success stories, this podcast looks in the opposite direction—at the leaders who failed, the decisions that backfired, and the moments in history when authority, ambition, or confidence went disastrously wrong.Each episode explores real historical cases of bad leadership, strategic failure, organizational collapse, and power miscalculation. From governments and armies to companies and movements, these are stories where leaders ignored warning signs, surrounded themselves with yes-men, chased the wrong incentives, or confused confidence with competence.This isn’t a podcast about hustle culture or inspirational leadership myths. It’s about leadership mistakes, failed decision-making, hubris, mismanagement, and the uncomfortable truth that most failures come from very human, very common errors.If you’re interested in leadership failures from history, why organizations collapse, how power distorts judgment, and what actually happens when leadership ideas meet reality—this podcast is for you.Not Founders – Failures Podcast Because history isn’t written only by the winners. It’s shaped just as much by the mistakes.

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Not Founders – Failures Podcast is a history podcast about leadership that didn’t work. While most business and leadership shows obsess over founders, visionaries, and success stories, this podcast looks in the opposite direction—at the leaders who failed, the decisions that backfired, and the moments in history when authority, ambition, or confidence went disastrously wrong. Each episode explores real historical cases of bad leadership, strategic failure, organizational collapse, and power miscalculation. From governments and armies to companies and movements, these are stories where leaders ignored warning signs, surrounded themselves with yes-men, chased the wrong incentives, or confused confidence with competence. This isn’t a podcast about hustle culture or inspirational leadership myths. It’s about leadership mistakes, failed decision-making, hubris, mismanagement, and the uncomfortable truth that most failures come from very human, very common errors. If you’re interested in leadership failures from history, why organizations collapse, how power distorts judgment, and what actually happens when leadership ideas meet reality—this podcast is for you. Not Founders – Failures Podcast Because history isn’t written only by the winners. It’s shaped just as much by the mistakes.

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When Neutrality Chooses a Side: James Buchanan and Presidential Paralysis

When Neutrality Chooses a Side: James Buchanan and Presidential Paralysis