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The Good Government Podcast - Ep. 29 - The Framework of the Federalist with Harvey Flaumenhaft Oct 27, 2025

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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 security think tank in Washington DC. Previously, he taught American Government, US History, World Cultures and Religion, and English at Gilman School in Baltimore MD. He is pursuing an MLA at St. John’s College in Annapolis and earned his BA from Duke University where he studied politics, history, and Russian literature.

Michael Hoffpauir is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Austin (UATX). A student of political philosophy and American Politics, Hoffpauir earned a PhD from Claremont Graduate University, an MA from Boston College, and a BA from Louisiana State University.

The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

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.

The Good Government Podcast - Episode 28 - Plato's Phaedo with Ronna Burger Oct 14, 2025

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On Plato'sPhaedowith 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.

The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

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.

The Good Government Podcast - Episode 27 - Federalist Papers 28-29 Oct 06, 2025

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"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: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9

The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

The Good Government Podcast - Episode 26 - Federalist Paper 27 Sep 22, 2025

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"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

The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

The Good Government Podcast - Episode 25 - Federalist Paper 26 Sep 08, 2025

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"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"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959.

Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9

The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

The Good Government Podcast - Episode 24 - Federalist Papers 24-25 Aug 25, 2025

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"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.

Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9

The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

The Good Government Podcast - Episode 23 - On Brutus I Aug 11, 2025

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"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 France in 1959.

Brutus I may be found here: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/brutus-i/

Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, his alma mater, where he also coaches football and squash. Slutkin is currently enrolled in the MLA program at St. John's College Annapolis and graduated in 2021 from Duke University, having studied political science, American history, and Russian literature.

The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

The Good Government Podcast - Episode 22 - Federalist Paper 23 Jul 28, 2025

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"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 this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9

The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

The Good Government Podcast - Episode 21 - Federalist Papers 21-22 Jul 21, 2025

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"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 France in 1959.

Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9

The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

The Good Government Podcast - Episode 20 - Federalist Papers 18-20 Jul 14, 2025

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"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

The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

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