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A plain-English podcast that walks through the Federalist Papers one essay at a time. Each episode explains what the paper argued, why it mattered at the founding, and what it can still teach us today.
Shreyash Gupta hosts The Federalist Papers: Explained, a history show with 22 episodes published.
The diagnosis of America's first government gets its final, devastating chapter. Hamilton piles on the defects that finish off the Articles of Confederation: a government that cannot control trade while the states quietl
For three papers the founders toured a graveyard of foreign confederacies; now Hamilton turns the lamp on America's own government and starts naming, one by one, exactly what was broken in the Articles of Confederation.
For five papers now, the founders have toured the wreckage of history's confederacies — and now they reach the one that hurts: the Dutch republic, the rich, free, Protestant union that Americans most admired and tried to
Last time, the founders performed an autopsy on ancient Greece. This time they walk the same examination into their own century — and find the disease alive and rotting in modern Europe. The thousand-year-old Holy Roman
Ancient Greece tried, twice, to bind its proud city-states into a single union — and both times it ended in chains. Hamilton and Madison open the history books and lay the two great Greek confederacies on the table like
Once Hamilton convinced people the new government could reach every citizen directly, his opponents had a fresh fear: a central power that strong would grow until it swallowed the states whole. Federalist No. 17 is his a
Everyone in seventeen eighty-seven could see the obvious fix for America's failing government: keep the Articles of Confederation, but give Congress the power to force states to obey. Federalist No. 16 is Alexander Hamil
Four years after winning the Revolution, America could not pay its debts, enforce its own treaties, or make Britain leave forts on American soil. Federalist No. 15 is Alexander Hamilton's diagnosis of why — and it comes
The most respected political science of the age said a republic had to be small — and America was anything but. Federalist No. 14 is James Madison's final answer to the objection that haunted the Constitution from the ve
Running a country costs money — and Federalist No. 13 is Alexander Hamilton's short, sharp answer to the most relatable objection anyone made against the Constitution: that a whole new federal government would simply cos
Every government runs on money — and Federalist No. 12 is Alexander Hamilton's blunt, brilliant answer to where that money actually comes from. He argues that a government can only tax wealth that moves, that cash-poor A
For ten papers, Publius warned New Yorkers about everything disunion would cost them. Federalist No. 11 is the turning point — the first paper that stops selling fear and starts selling opportunity. Hamilton argues that
James Madison takes the case Hamilton handed him in Federalist No. 9 and writes the most famous paper in the entire series. He argues that faction — groups of citizens united by passion or interest against the rights of
Hamilton turns from the external dangers of disunion to the deepest internal threat to a republic — faction. Looking at the chronic instability of ancient Greece and Renaissance Italy, where small republics swung endless
Hamilton looks past the question of whether divided states would fight and asks the harder question. What would all that fighting do to the people who had to live through it? His answer is unsentimental and a little chil
Hamilton gets specific: territory, trade, debt, broken contracts, and foreign alliances. Each is already visible inside the current confederation. Each would escalate to war without the Constitution.
Hamilton argues that a divided America would fight itself, because ambition, commerce, and the private passions of leaders make neighboring states natural rivals unless a confederate republic contains them.
Written by John Jay, Federalist No. 5 argues that if America split into separate confederacies, they would not remain peaceful partners for long. In this episode, we explain why Jay thought rivalry, jealousy, unequal str
Written by John Jay, Federalist No. 4 argues that America must not only avoid giving other nations good reasons for war, but also avoid looking weak enough to invite attack or insult. In this episode, we break down why J
Written by John Jay, Federalist No. 3 argues that a united America is less likely to drift into war than a divided one. In this episode, we break down why Jay thought one national government would be better at honoring t
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