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Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

David Dault and Steven Millies

19 episodes

1 week ago

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.

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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.

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Episodes (19/19)

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

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 week ago

1 hour 2 minutes

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

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

3 months ago

56 minutes

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

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

4 months ago

55 minutes

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

Federalist 15 - The voices talking somewhere in the house

As Steven often reminds us, politics is an endless conversation

4 months ago

53 minutes

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

Federalist 14 - Living inside, living inside, near wild heaven

James Madison makes the case that we need to think locally

5 months ago

45 minutes

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

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?

5 months ago

57 minutes

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

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.

6 months ago

56 minutes

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

Federalist 11 - Rivers shift, oceans part, and mountains drift

The Value of Union to Commerce and the Advantages of a Navy - Alexander Hamilton

7 months ago

52 minutes

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

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.

8 months ago

1 hour

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

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."

9 months ago

51 minutes

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

Federalist 9 - We have many things in common, name three

Alexander Hamilton - Union as a Barrier to Faction and Insurrection

1 year ago

53 minutes

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

Federalist 8 - See you in Heaven if you make the list

Alexander Hamilton draws on Thomas Hobbes and John Locke in a battle of wits against the Jeffersonian Anti-Federalists

1 year ago

56 minutes

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

Federalist 7 - By Jingo, buy America

Hamilton looks to the western territories, and becomes convinced the thing that will really save us is a national debt.

1 year ago

59 minutes

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

Federalist 6 - With the Furies breathing down your neck

Alexander Hamilton returns, and has a bevy of antique quotations to bring to bear. Steven and David wrestle with the mighty torrent of prose, and find their way through the labyrinth.

1 year ago

57 minutes

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

Federalist 5 - Look to the days, how long can this last?

In this, John Jay's last contribution for a while, he shows us he is thinking about the future, and the long-term effects of this new form of government. Steven and David also take a delightful detour into 'Originalism,' and the ideas of Edmund Burke.

1 year ago

58 minutes

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

Federalist 4 - I can see myself at (eighteen) thirty

Steven and David marvel at the prescient visions of Alexander Hamilton--a veritable Walt Disney--and the rotten luck of John Jay.

1 year ago

1 hour

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

Federalist 3 - Here's a house to put wolves at the door

"There's an anxiety at the heart of Federalist 3," Steven says. It's a fear that when republics grow too big, they cannot be maintained. We dive deep into the question in this episode.

1 year ago

1 hour

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

Federalist 2 - Let's put our heads together and start a new country up

Steven and David look at John Jay's arguments against confederation and for the Union, and liken it to "building the plane while you're trying to fly it," but ... you know ... in a good way.

1 year ago

58 minutes

Steven and David Read the Federalist Papers

Federalist 1 - Begin the Begin

Steven and David kick off their reading with the first Federalist Paper, penned by Alexander Hamilton. During the hour, they talk about why they're doing this, and what it all might mean.

1 year ago

58 minutes