Consequential Actions Podcast

Incorporation: Does the Bill of Rights Bind the States? Kian v. Florida In 1789 James Madison asked Congress to bar the states from violating the rights of conscience, the freedom of the press, and trial by jury in...

The Mayflower Compact to the Town Meeting: How Colonial New England Governed Itself In November 1620, the Mayflower dropped anchor far outside the only patent its passengers held. Before anyone went ashore, forty-one...

Automatic Draft Registration (Dec. 2026) and the History of the American Draft This December, Selective Service registration becomes automatic. The duty to sign up moves from the man to the government, and the agency...

Self-Evident: The Road to 1776 — Ep. 15 Voltaire vs. Rousseau: Toleration, Consent & the General Will In 1762 a Protestant cloth merchant was broken on the wheel in Toulouse for a murder that never happened. Voltaire...

<p>Originally planned as a companion piece to our written article, this episode has adjusted into coverage of the Kentucky 4th district US House race featuring Thomas Massie. We go into a day after analysis and look at...

<p>This contemporary application episode is the libertarian corrective to ninety years of misnamed critique of American foreign policy. Opening with Major General Smedley Butler’s 1933 confession revisited from Episode...

<p>Episode 19 traces the two-hundred-year arc from James Monroe’s 1823 doctrine — originally a defensive warning to European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere — to its contemporary inversion into a claim of...

<p>Piece 1 of a three-part feature on libertarianism and the 2026 Libertarian National Convention. The episode separates the libertarian idea — the lowercase-l, a tradition reaching back roughly twenty-five centuries —...

<p>This contemporary application episode examines the doctrine of comprehensive economic sanctions as the operating instrument of post-Church Committee American regime-change policy. Opening with the May 12, 1996 60...

<p>Episode 18 traces the monetary architecture that finances the American empire — from the founders’ gold-and-silver Constitution through the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that produced the Federal Reserve, the 1933 gold...

<p>This contemporary application episode examines the Russo-Ukrainian peace negotiations from the perspective of how the Iran war, launched on February twenty-eighth, 2026, materially altered the negotiating landscape...

<p>Episode 17 examines the Ukraine war as the predictable result of three decades of American policy choices. Following the argument of Article 17, the episode traces NATO expansion from Baker’s 1990 “not one inch...

<p>This contemporary application episode tests the central moral claim of American interventionism — that war can liberate populations — against the historical record of the past quarter century. Walking through Iraq...

<p>Episode 16 examines American intervention in Libya, Syria, and Yemen during and after the Arab Spring—three cases that repeated every error of the Iraq War under a president elected because of his opposition to it...

<p>This contemporary application episode rejects the conventional framing of the congressional accountability “paradox” — the fifteen percent approval rating alongside the ninety-seven percent incumbent reelection rate...