Lore of the Founding: Cato And Give Me Liberty, Give Me Death
One Roman name keeps popping up wherever people argue about freedom, tyranny, and what a citizen owes a republic: Cato. We follow Cato the Younger from the final days of the Roman Republic, when Juliu...
25 Jun 37min
Lore of the Founding- Julius Caesar
A republic can look stable right up until the moment it isn’t. We sit down with Joanna Kenti to trace how Julius Caesar rises through Roman politics, builds personal loyalty through war, and finally d...
24 Jun 38min
Lore of the Founding- Founding of the Roman Republic
A king gets exiled, a republic gets born, and the story is so brutal it still shapes how people talk about tyranny today. We dig into Rome’s founding legend with Joanna Kenty, starting with the Roman ...
23 Jun 31min
The Lore of the Founding: Checks And Balances in Rome
A republic doesn’t fail only because of enemies at the gates. It can fail because someone inside decides the rules are for other people. That’s the tension we wrestle with as we explore checks and bal...
22 Jun 35min
What is Juneteenth and Why Do We Celebrate?
Juneteenth isn’t just a date; it’s a lesson about how freedom can be promised on paper and still withheld in practice. I’m joined by Clint Smith, the New York Times bestselling author of *How the Word...
19 Jun 22min
Lore of the Founding- An Introduction
America’s founding didn’t spring from a blank page. It grew out of a loud, messy argument that had been running for centuries about how people should govern themselves, and Joanna Kenty helps us follo...
18 Jun 31min
The War Powers Act Explained
The Constitution draws a bright line that most of us never hear clearly: Congress declares war, and the President commands the military. So why does modern American conflict so often start without a f...
17 Jun 27min
How Primaries Pick Candidates And Reshape Elections
Primaries decide far more than most voters think and the process that was supposed to make politics cleaner may be one reason it feels uglier. We sit down with Dr. Sean Beienberg to unpack what primar...
16 Jun 16min
