
A plain-English podcast that walks through the Federalist Papers one essay at a time. Each episode explains what the paper argued, why it mattered at the founding, and what it can still teach us today.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 11 | Founded | 3 months ago |
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For ten papers, Publius warned New Yorkers about everything disunion would cost them. Federalist No. 11 is the turning point — the first paper that stops selling fear and starts selling opportunity. Hamilton argues that a united America is a single m... more
James Madison takes the case Hamilton handed him in Federalist No. 9 and writes the most famous paper in the entire series. He argues that faction — groups of citizens united by passion or interest against the rights of others — is not a bug in popul... more
Hamilton turns from the external dangers of disunion to the deepest internal threat to a republic — faction. Looking at the chronic instability of ancient Greece and Renaissance Italy, where small republics swung endlessly between tyranny and anarchy... more
Hamilton looks past the question of whether divided states would fight and asks the harder question. What would all that fighting do to the people who had to live through it? His answer is unsentimental and a little chilling. When a country lives in ... more
Hamilton gets specific: territory, trade, debt, broken contracts, and foreign alliances. Each is already visible inside the current confederation. Each would escalate to war without the Constitution.
Hamilton argues that a divided America would fight itself, because ambition, commerce, and the private passions of leaders make neighboring states natural rivals unless a confederate republic contains them.
Written by John Jay, Federalist No. 5 argues that if America split into separate confederacies, they would not remain peaceful partners for long. In this episode, we explain why Jay thought rivalry, jealousy, unequal strength, and foreign manipulatio... more
Written by John Jay, Federalist No. 4 argues that America must not only avoid giving other nations good reasons for war, but also avoid looking weak enough to invite attack or insult. In this episode, we break down why Jay thought union, national coo... more










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