Political Theory
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The Supreme Court as Accomplice: Judicial Backing for Executive Power
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (28:27)
Presidential Money Mismanagement from FDR to Nixon
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (40:45)
The Politics of Recession
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
(26:24)
Colonial America and the American Revolution
Albion’s Seed is a great book about the four migration folkways into the colonies from Great Britain during 1629 through 1775. The groups had many characteristics in common which may be what made future union possible, but the groups were also different. Puritans hated Quakers. Everybody hated Catholics. The competing regional cultures created quite a laissez-faire outcome between the community-based groups and more individualistic groups.
War and Economics in 19th-Century America
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
(30:02)
War, State, Economics, and Hypocrisy
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
(22:15)
Philosophy and Violence
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
(30:17)
The Rise of the Nation-State
Most of what is said about nation-states is not true. They are neither democracies nor republics nor nations nor states. There is no natural relationship between government and state. Men have been governed by many things that are not states. Throughout most of history man has lived without a state.
