The Democratic Constitution Podcast
By Lucas De Hart and Luke Pickrell
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The United States is not a democracy. We need a democratic constitution! A media wing of the Democratic Constitution Blog.
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Ep. 80: Guy Aitchison on Popular Resistance and the Idea of Rights
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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Ep. 79: Clyde Barrow on the Life and Times of Charles A. Beard
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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Ep. 78: Richard Wolff on Marxism, Trump, and Political and Economic Democracy
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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DSA Presentation: Reconstruction and Radical Republicanism
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May 20, 2026 |
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Audio Article: The Voting Rights Rollback Shows We Need a New Constitution
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May 15, 2026 |
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Ep. 77: Gil Schaeffer on the Declaration of Independence, Tom Paine, Lenin, and Reconstruction
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May 11, 2026 |
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Ep. 76: August Nimtz on Frederick Douglass, Karl Marx, and the American Civil War
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Ep. 75: Beau J. Baumann on Russell Vought, the Unitary Executive, and the LPE Project
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Ep. 74: Oliver Larkin on Running for Congress and Fighting for Democracy
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Ep. 73: Clyde Barrow on C. Wright Mills, Nicos Poulantzas, and the Undemocratic State
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Ep. 72: Corey Brooks on the Liberty Party and Antislavery Third Parties
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Ep. 71: Terry Bouton on America Monarchism and the Thermidorian Reaction to 1776
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Ep. 70: Terry Bouton on the People, the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Ep. 69: Patrick Rael on the Abolitionist Struggle and the Long Death of Slavery
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Ep. 68: José Luis Granados Ceja on Venezuela, Mexico, and the Struggle for Democracy
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Ep. 67: Jason Maloy on the Paine-Adams Debate and Its Seventeenth-Century Antecedents
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Ep. 66: Woody Holton on Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Ep. 65: Gerald Horne on the Constitution, (Counter-)Revolutions, and Internationalism
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Ep. 64: Tad Stoermer on Public History, Political Myths, and an Alternative History of the Declaration of Independence
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Ep. 63: Michael Fox on Venezuela and the US's Long Shadow over Latin America
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Audio Article: Toward A New American Founding
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Ep. 62: David Waldstreicher on Slavery's Constitution
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Audio Article: The Year in Review
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Upcoming Reading Group on the Undemocratic Constitution
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Ep. 61: Don Doyle on the International History of the American Civil War
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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Ep. 60: Gary Dorrien on Morality, Rights, and American Democratic Socialism
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Ep. 59: Gregory Downs on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Collapse of Republican Dreams
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Audio Article: Cease Being Autocratic
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Ep. 58: Van Gosse on the First Reconstruction, Antebellum Historiography, and the New Left
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Audio Article: The Wheels Are Falling Off
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Ep. 57: Robert Tsai on America's Forgotten Constitutions
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Audio Article: Terror Tuesday Redux
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Audio Article: Proposition 50: A Race to the Bottom
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Ep 56: Alec Karakatsanis on Copaganda and America's Punishment Bureaucracies
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Ep. 55: Greg and John on Constitutional Education and Move to Amend
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Ep. 54: Manisha Sinha on the Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Ep. 53: Jonathan Eig on the Life and Times of Martin Luther King
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Ep. 52: Matthew Stewart on Religion, Abolitionism, and the Making of America
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Ep. 51: Jalil Muntaqim on the Spirit of Mandela Coalition and the Mobilization Against Genocide
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Audio Article: A Heavy Heritage
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Ep. 50: Bruce Levine on Thaddeus Stevens and the Relevance of History
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Audio Article: An Inescapable Network of Mutuality
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Audio Article: Houston, We Have a Problem
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Audio Article: Zohran Mamdani is Wrong About Democracy
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Ep 49: Kermit Roosevelt on Reconstructing America's Story
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Audio Article: DC Deserves Statehood
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Ep. 48: Leah Downey on Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Audio Article: To Protect Voting Rights, We Need a Democratic Constitution
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Ep. 47: Rogers Smith on America’s New Racial Battle Lines
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Ep. 46: Osita Nwanevu on Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Ep. 45: Zaakir Tameez on Charles Sumner and the Reconstructed Constitution
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Ep. 44: Douglas Egerton on Reconstruction and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Ep. 43: Gil Schaeffer on Lenin, King, and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Ep. 42: Daniel Lazare on Where Things Stand
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Ep. 41: Dan Farbman on Abolitionism and Resistance Lawyering
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Weekly Recap
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Audio Article: Two Hundred and Fifty Years Without Democracy is Long Enough
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Audio Article: Trump and Birthright Citizenship
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Ep. 40: Stephen Pimpare on Donald Trump's Emergence and the Constitution
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Audio Article: Democratic in Name Only
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Weekly Recap
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Ep. 39: Gregory Claeys on Tom Paine's Social and Political Thought
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Ep. 38: Mariano Guevara Recaps Mexico's Judicial Elections
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Audio Article: Forward and Over
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Weekly Recap
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Ep. 37: Bruce Watson on Freedom Summer and Moral Motivation
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Audio Article: Build Something Better
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Audio Article: Starting Point
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Ep. 36: Lynn Hunt on the Development of Human Rights
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Audio Article: David Hogg, the Democratic Party, and the Oligarchic US Constitution
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Audio Article: The Vise Tightens
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Ep. 35: Greg Grandin on 'The End of the Myth' and 'America, América'
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Ep. 34: Austin Sarat on the Death Penalty and Building a New Constitution
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May 30, 2025 |
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Ep. 33: Erwin Chemerinsky on 'No Democracy Lasts Forever'
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May 23, 2025 |
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Ep. 32: Alfredo and Sami on Mexico's Judicial Elections
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May 23, 2025 |
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Ep. 31: Mariano Guevara on Mexico's Judicial Elections
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May 14, 2025 |
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Ep. 30: Gary Berton on Thomas Paine's Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
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May 09, 2025 |
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Ep. 29: Samuel Moyn on Misplaced Faith in the Courts
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Audio Article: The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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Ep. 28: Steven Raney on DSA, YDSA, and the Current Moment
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Audio Article: A New Foundation
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Ep. 27: Ricardo Miranda on Mexico's Constitution and the Programa Universitario de Estudios sobre Democracia, Justicia y Sociedad (PUEDJS-UNAM)
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Ep. 26: Aziz Rana on Democracy as a Decolonial Project
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Ep. 25: Gil Schaeffer on Equal Human and Political Rights and Democratic Republicanism
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Ep. 24: Daniel Lazare on Trump, Constitutional Crises, Sovereignty, and U.S. History
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Ep. 23: Alfredo and Sami on Morena and the Political Landscape in Mexico
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Ep. 22: Matt McManus on Liberalism, Tom Paine, C.B. Macpherson, and Political Rights
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Audio Article: Captive Workers
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Audio Article: Project 2026
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Ep. 21: Louis Michael Seidman on Constitutional Skepticism and Disobedience
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Audio Article: The Filibuster Stays
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Ep. 20: Alexander Gourevitch on Economic and Political Freedom
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Ep. 19: Richard Albert on Amending the Constitution and Comparative Constitutionalism
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Ep. 18: Lisa Miller on Checks and Balances, Federalism, and the Dangers of “Constitutional Myths”
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Ep. 17: Sam and Tyler on Proportional Representation and the 'Voters Deserve More' Project
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Trump's Victory and Implications for the U.S., England, and the Rest of the United Kingdom
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Audio Article: Ben Studebaker’s Good-Bad Book on the Great American Breakdown
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Audio Article: The Many Problems With Policing
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Audio Article: Why Talk With Socialists?
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Audio Article: What Is To Be Done?
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Audio Article: Meltdown 2.0
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Audio Article: Marxism Is Democratic Republicanism: The History of the Struggle for Equal Human and Political Rights From the Inside Out
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Audio Article: Obama and The Breakfast Club
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Audio Article: Is the Constitution Unconstitutional?
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Ep. 16: Thomas Geoghegan on the Infernal Senate
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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The Democratic Constitution Podcast: Daniel Lazare on Trump's Victory
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Audio Article: Past, Present, and Future
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Audio Article: We Need Clarity and Consistency, Not More Nuance
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Audio Article: What Should DSA Do After the Election?
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Audio Article: Electoral College Redux
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Audio Article: The Crisis of Democracy and the 2024 Election
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Audio Article: Fighting for True Democracy: A Socialist Primer on the Constitution’s Structural Provisions
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Audio Article: A Perfect Storm?
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Ep. 15: Robert Ovetz on Going Beyond the Constitution
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Ep. 14: The SPA's Constitutional Critique
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Ep. 13: Samuel Moyn on the 'Devil You Know' and Liberalism Against Itself
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Ep. 12: Aziz Rana on SCOTUS and Reactions to 'The Constitutional Bind'
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Ep. 11: Roaming Thoughts on the Presidential Debate
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Ep. 10: Harvey J. Kaye on the Lasting Influence of Tom Paine
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Ep. 9: Reconstruction, The Second Founding, and Universal and Equal Rights
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Ep. 8: Michael Klarman on the Constitution's Origins and Contemporary Problems
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Ep. 7: Caleb Brennan on Reimagining the Constitutional Order
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Bonus Ep: A Socialist Critique of the Constitution
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Bonus Ep: The Left's Rediscovery of Democratic Republicanism
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Ep. 6: Oren S on Proportional Representation and the Path Toward Democracy
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Ep. 5: Rashad X on DSA, FORC, and Working Toward a Democratic Constitution
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Ep. 4: Thomas Paine and the Democratic Republic
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Ep. 2: Mexican Politics and Supreme Court Discourse
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Ep. 3: Daniel Lazare on Worshipping the Constitution
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Ep. 1: Introducing the Democratic Constitution Podcast
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May 28, 2024 |