Republic At Risk
Broken norms and bad faith are interfering with the proper functioning of our government. How can we tolerate this in a time of pandemic and economic...
Stand Up Citizen
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As we approach the 2020 election, a podcast for ordinary citizens to help sort through our fractious politics, and their distorting effect on how we make our choices.. A non-partisan look at American first principles - not an academic exercise, but a reminder on what our founders intended and expected of us as citizens. Founding documents will refresh our civics IQ, so we can look critically at our current issues. Think of Stand Up Citizen as civics for grownups.
Warnings from History
Using several sources, we explore the kinds of actions and trends that should alarm us about the advance of tyranny. Both recent books such as How De...
Informed Citizen
In our current political and cultural climate we need citizenship education more than ever. We look at what our founders had to say about the need fo...
On the Electoral College
We review the founders design for the electoral college method of electing the president. Selections from Hamilton's presentation of the elector...
Corrosive Bad Faith
We explore the effect of bad faith actions by our political officials and candidates on the health of our body politic, and ask the question whether t...
The Case Against Citizens United
Using the principles that informed and directed the founding generation, we analyze the Citizens United ruling that led to far more corporate money in...
On Civic Virtue
We explore the importance of civic virtue, public virtue, to our founders when they created our republic. Then the comments of other luminaries on vi...
The Secret of Freedom is Courage
The founders of our country are much in the news of late. Even the Federalist Papers are getting lots of air time. Let's remind ourselves that ...
A Debate for the Ages
The Constitution is published after months of hard work, and there is lots of push back. Opposition to many of its aspects comes even from leading ci...
Rule of Law - Constitution
Setting the stage for the creation of the Constitution, this episode gives background and context for how the framers created our Constitution. It is...