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.

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 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.

"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

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.