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The Talented Mr. Madison

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Majoritarian Government Can Be Corruptible

The greeks and the romans had a tragic view of human existence. Majoritarian government can, and often has become corrupt. And this is why i think one of the values of understanding madison through the context of his life, rather than just his writings, is that he had seen, in his lifetime, the founders had seen, a version of polybius tragic cycle.

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