The Good Government Podcast

The Framework of the Federalist with Harvey Flaumenhaft Get Harvey Flaumenhaft's The Framework of the Federalist here: https://bit.ly/48GE1bq   Harvey Flaumenhaft obtained his doctorate in political science at the University of Chicago and has been a member of the senior faculty at St. John’s College, Annapolis for over fifty years. Aaron Slutkin works in academic programming at a national securit...

On Plato's Phaedo with Ronna Burger Get Ronna Burger's The Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth here: https://rb.gy/r0g6lz Ronna Burger is the Catherine & Henry J. Gaisman Chair of Philosophy at Tulane University. Aaron Slutkin works in academic programming at a national security think tank in Washington DC. Previously, he taught American Government, US History, World Cultures and Religion, and Englis...

"Seditions and insurrections are, unhappily, maladies as inseparable from the body politic as tumors and eruptions from the natural body" - Publius, Federalist Paper 28   Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959.   Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: ht...

"Sorry, I'm keeping quiet because there's a fire truck on the street right now." - AS   Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959.   Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9     Aaron Slutkin works in academic programming at a nat...

"IT WAS a thing hardly to be expected that in a popular revolution the minds of men should stop at that happy mean which marks the salutary boundary between POWER and PRIVILEGE, and combines the energy of government with the security of private rights." - Publius, Federalist Paper 26   Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"),...

"For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion." - Publius   Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959....

"Besides, it is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over every thing that stands in their way." – Brutus   Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de...

"The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed." On Federalist Paper 23.  Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from...

"The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority." On Federalist Papers 21-22.  Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de Franc...

"A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master."  On Federalist Papers 18-20.  Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9 Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher...

On Federalist Papers 16 and 17.  Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9 Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, his alma mater, where h...

On Federalist Paper 15.  Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9 Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, his alma mater, where he also c...

On Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address. Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. You may find Lincoln's First Inaugural Address here: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lincoln1.asp Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore,...

On Abraham Lincoln's "Fragment on Slavery." Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Art is Robert S. Duncanson (1821–1872), Landscape with Campsite. Reading may be found here: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/fragments-on-slavery/   Aaron Slutkin is an Upper S...

On Federalist Paper 14.  Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers:  https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9 Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, his alma mater, where he also...

On Federalist Papers 11-13.  Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers:  https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9 Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, his alma mater, where he a...

On Federalist Paper 10.  Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers:  https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9 Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, his alma mater, where he also...

On the Beginning of Federalist Paper 10. Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers:  https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9 Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, his alma mater...

On Federalist Paper 9. Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9 Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, his alma mater, where he also coa...

On Federalist Paper 8. Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9 Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, his alma mater, where he also coa...

On Federalist Paper 7. Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9 Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, his alma mater, where he also coa...

Aaron and Michael discuss Federalist Paper 6. Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9 Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, his alma m...

On Machiavelli's Prince and effectual truth, Cesare Borgia, good government, and Romagna. Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from this edition of The Prince: https://tinyurl.com/mr7kjbpe Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School i...

On Machiavelli's Prince and effectual truth, syphoning gas, and crabbing in a ditch. Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from this edition of The Prince: https://tinyurl.com/mr7kjbpe Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School in Bal...

Aaron and Michael discuss Federalist Papers 3-5, drinking water, and the beauty of Vermont. Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers:  https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9 Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at G...