Peaceful Political Revolution in America

S3 E6 SYSTEM CORRUPTION with Camila Vergara_Part 1

Welcome to another episode of the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. I want to begin today with a passage that has been sitting with me for some time. It comes from the Swiss scholar Pascal Lottaz, host of

S3 E5 The Model Constitutional Convention with Dr. Stefanie Lindquist

Welcome to another episode of the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. In this episode, I will be exploring one of the most important and timely questions facing our country today: What would it look like if

S3 E4 Movement Building with Ben Price

When people talk about democracy in America, we often focus on elections… on candidates… on the latest headlines coming out of Washington. But the deeper question—the one that shapes everything—is this: Who actually hold

S3 E3 Confronting the Climate Emergency with Dr. Peter Carter

S3 E3 Confronting the Climate Emergency with Dr. Peter Carterz Nov 24, 2025 Welcome to the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. Dean of Law at UC Berkeley, Erwin Chemerinsky, Sanford Levinson, George Van Cle

S3 E2 Constitution-Making in America with Sanford Levinson

Welcome back to another episode of the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. Today, I will be talking with Sanford Levinson. Levinson is the W. St John Garwood and W St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in

S3 E1 The Next System and American Constitutionalism with Dr. Ben Manski

Welcome to the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. I’ve been on a kind of sabbatical this past year. So much has happened, and I really needed to take the time to explore some of the major developments whic

S2 E10 Russia Against Modernity with Alexander Etkind

Welcome to the Peaceful Political Revolution in America Podcast The Anthropocene will be a doozy from what I'm hearing. Even if new technologies and new systems replace the ones currently falling apart, it will be a bump

S2 E9 System Change and the Future of Democracy with Peter Leyden

S2 E8 The Constitution Should not be Reclaimed with Samuel Moyn

Welcome back to the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. I n America, "We The People" are the constituent power, "the actor which always remains outside the government" as Seyes defined it. Or, as James Wils

S2 E7 Constituent Power and the Future of Constitutional Democracy with Sergio Verdugo

In season one, I spoke with Arend Lijphart about democratic political systems. He had a number of recommendations on how Americans could improve our democracy if they really wanted to do. The question as always remains,

S2 E6 Equality with Frances Chiu

In the last episode, I talked with Juliano Benvindo about the similarities between the January 6th Capitol Insurrection and the more recent attack on all three branches of government in Brasilia. It turns out that Brazil

S2 E5 Brazil’s Frenetic Pace of Constitutional Change with Juliano Benvindo

Events in America like the 2021 United States Capitol Insurrection are not unique to America. Brazil also suffered from a similar crisis on Jan 8, 2023. The attack there, on all three branches of government in Brasilia,

S2 E4 Trailer, FDR and A New Economic Bill of Rights with Harvey J. Kaye and Alan Minsky

Welcome to the Peaceful Political Revolution in American Podcast. In Season 1 Episode 2 last year, I spoke with Professor Emeritus of Democracy & Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Harvey J. Kaye.

S2 E3 Thomas Paine's Rights of Man with Gary Berton

Welcome back to the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. I couldn't go any further without a discussion about Thomas Paine's Rights of Man. Not because it was historically significant, although it certainly

S2 E2 We The Elites with Robert Ovetz

Welcome to the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. Bernie loves to point his finger at the elites, but who are they and where do they come from? It seems as if Bernie believes they possess a lot more influe

S2 E1 American Sovereigns with Christian Fritz

Welcome back to the second season of the Peaceful Political Revolution in America Podcast, a series of conversations with America's top scholars, writers, journalists, and activists, on the topic of our Constitution. Tha

S1 E14 Making a new American Constitution with George William Van Cleve

Welcome back to the Peaceful Political Revolution in American Podcast. So, how do Americans "shore up" their institutions of government? How do we strengthen our democracy and protect it from the anti-democratic forces t

S1 E13 Presidents, Populism and the Crisis of Democracy with William Howell

William Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the University of Chicago, where he holds appointments in the Harris School, Department of Political Science, and College. Currently, he is the chair o

S1 E12 Our Undemocratic Constitution with Sanford Levinson

Any serious discussion about a peaceful political revolution in America would be incomplete if it did not include a conversation with today's guest. Sandford Levinson holds the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood

S1 E11 The Icelandic Constitutional Assembly with Tom Ginsburg

Welcome back to the Peaceful Political Revolution in America podcast. When you look around the world at different constitutions, and how political systems are formed, you quickly realize that they are all quite different