welcome to our audience on c-span two, the 2023 annual james madison lecture this year to be delivered, as dr. burnett said by the distinguished historian h w brands james, a lecture with the antiquarian but eerily relevant title founding partizans hamilton madison jeffrey, son adams and the brawling birth of american politics. by the way, here, said an advanced copy of the book, which will be in bookstores soon. i believe, which promises to be a provocative read. professor brands is the jack s blanton senior chair in history at the university of texas at austin, which is his doctoral mater. he's the author of over 30 books, two of which have been finalists for the pulitzer prize. and in discussing my introduction, he said he'd be happy with a brief biography. so i'm not going to recite all 30 of those titles to you. but here's a sampling of them. the moneymen andrew jackson. the age of gold. the first american tr. the strange death of american liberalism. what america owes the world. lonestar nation and the devil we knew. henry william brandes was born in portland, oregon, where he li

james madison did because he was james madison. i think we should ask ourselves if we persuaded by what he did and we are, then we should work to preserve it. and i am and i think we ought to be. and part of the reason for that is that in some important respects i think their science was less new than they said. i, i think madison's political science was very rooted in a kind of classical political and a lot of things we attribute madison, you know, the notion that resolve the problem of factions by increasing their number. you know you read book four of aristotle's politics you would you would see that there that's not that was not an invention of the princeton faculty in the 1840s. they they it as such and and you know the phrase new science of politics is in the federalist hamilton does claim that that's what they're doing. and then he lists a series of ideas that are just not new. and i think it's important for us to see that, too. but by all means, we have to think about what we need now, and we have to think realistically abo

it is the spirit of james madison more than anybody else, his voice certainly is heard more than anyone else's voice in the book. and i think madison stands out in our political tradition for worrying about division. there are that worry social order, dynamism like hamilton, their that worry about something like social justice and equality like jefferson. those voices are there in our tradition. they are at their best, right and the left. madison worries about social cohesion, unity in a way that almost nobody does, lincoln does. and you can see. why? but madison does it without a civil war. it's what he worries about above all, when he thinks about politics in the era of the framing of the constitution. and so the book learns a lot from him. but i think there is a way that at at certain times madison is dismissive of the need for civic virtue. he that the system can work as a kind of machine that resolves the problem of bad citizenship by the operation of the institutions. madison isn't always like that and you can almost see him kind of correcting himself when goes too far in these di

james madison. well, we can acknowledge that he has contributed significantly to the building shaping of our democracy. we will never deny that. and is a critical part of the interpretive portion. but the balance is that he would have never been an intellect, have had the privilege to do that work if it was not for the unimaginable of black and our ancestors who were enslaved on that site and across nation, like through their unimaginable sacrifice, enslaved american help to birth our democracy as well. and so we. so montpelier the previous staff knew. yes. the previous staff knew that that was their social responsibility. there was a leadership change at the chair and at ceo level, an unfortunate lead. they were going against their own leadership in the field. and after that rubric in 2018, it a best practice for helping organizations become accountable to. equitable interpretation and the beauty. what was exciting is the board at montpelier amended their bylaws to advance parity, which meant that

welcome to our audience on c-span two, the 2023 annual james madison lecture this year to be delivered as dr. burnett said by the

and now i'm honored to introduce our james madison lecture this afternoon. distinguished author and pulitzer prize winner, mr. jesse schiff. mischief is a graduate of williams college in massachusetts. since she's authored many, many articles for various publications such as the new yorker, the new york times, the washington post and many others. mischief is also the author of six books dealing with a wide variety of topics, such as benjamin franklin, the salem witch trials, cleopatra and one of my personal favorite historical figures. pilot and author antoine de saint-exupery. her book entitled vera ms. vladimir nabokov won the pulitzer prize for biography in 2000. her incredible 2005 book on benjamin franklin, which i think most of you have. entitled a great improvization franklin, france and the birth of america won the washington book prize, the the ambassador award in american studies and the gilbert chouinard prize. the book was also recently turned into a fantastic miniseries on apple tv plus called franklin and starring michael douglas. i think most

thank you, mark always your executive director and founder of the james madison project and cofounderightahead, west made it to the interview in-person with kamala harris? how is donald trump appearing to respond after a week of failing to lead a line of attack against kamala harris and mark >>> this week's meeting of the velshi banned book club, author of "the last white man" joins me. >>> another hour of "velshi" starts right now. ight now. >>> good morning, it is saturday, august 3rd, 93 days until election day. it has been 13 days since vice president kamala harris took over the top

stopped acting like president the last six months of the second term since his friend and colleague, james madison, was a shoo-in to be elected the next president and he turned over the offices duties to madison and sat in the white house reading newspapers into twiddling and twiddling his thumbs and looking forward to going home to monticello. one of the reasons he also was eager as he had information of america's future that he didn't approve of. he disapproved of the federal court system. especially the supreme court. he hated john marshall. he was to have salt roped into the john marshall wound because in 1806, jefferson easily looked to richmond virginia where aaron burr was on trial in which jefferson thought he was definitely guilty of and the luck of the assignment of the supreme court judges to the various outlying districts john marshall was the judge at richmond and instructed the jury to what the clause in the constitution meant and the jury may or may not like. so, jefferson hated the number of people. one of them was marshall. another one was berger and another was alexander hamilton

students right now are rolling their eyes that i can't speak for 10 minutes without talking about james madison. but madison wrote brilliant paper in, 1800, and he talked the monster that lives within us that this monster dwells us and comes forth during periods of fear and periods of hatred. that monster is sedition. it is the criminalization of speech. and madison saw adams in later a bit jefferson for what they were he saw them slipping away and he warned them not to let this monster come back. it's time we slay the monster and we don't need in this country we can a clean break from history in that. well speaking history. one of the other major themes of your book which we've touched on but i'm going to ask a more pointed the subtitle is an age rage right it's not the age of rage and on the one hand you show that this is a consistent historic pattern. on the other hand, you seem to indicate you did so at the beginning of this interview as well, that the age of rage is uniquely dangerous for a couple of reasons. and one of the reasons is you talk about a triumvirate of forces in addition to t

students right now are rolling their eyes that i can't speak for 10 minutes without talking about james madisont madison wrote brilliant paper in, 1800, and he talked the monster that lives within us that this monster dwells us and comes forth during periods of fear and periods of hatred. that monster is sedition. it is the criminalization of speech. and madison saw adams in later a bit jefferson for what they were he saw them slipping away and he warned them not to let this monster come back. it's time we slay the monster and we don't need in this country we can a clean break from history in that. well speaking history. one of the other major themes of your book which we've touched on but i'm going to ask a more pointed the subtitle is an age rage right it's not the age of rage and on the one hand you show that this is a consistent historic pattern. on the other hand, you seem to indicate you did so at the beginning of this interview as well, that the age of rage is uniquely dangerous for a couple of reasons. and one of the reasons is you talk about a triumvirate of forces in addition to the g

acting as president for the last six months of the second term since his friend and colleague, james madison was a shoe in to be elected the next president and he turned over the duties of the office mostly to james madison and sat in the white house reading newspapers and twiddling his thumbs and looking forward to going home to monticello. one of the reasons he was eager to leave the white house is he had intimations of an american future that he didn't approve of. he disapproved of the federal court system. especially the supreme court. he hated john marshall. he was in 806, to have salt rubbed into the john marshall wound because in 1806, jefferson eagerly looked to richmond, virginia, where ehrenberg was on trial for treason which jefferson thought he was definitely guilty of and the lock of the assignment of supreme court judges to various outlying districts, john marshall was the judge at ehrenberg's trial in richmond and instructed the jury exactly as to what the treason clause in the constitution meant and the jury may or may not like jefferson's former vice president who jefferson

you write in the book about how james madison in particular we are now living in james madison's nightmare. what do you mean by that? how do we get out of it, especially in this day and age of social media? so the it's so wonderful to be here with you and carlos because we're both looking at how what people read their lives and their worldview. and that is the wisdom of the dharma part of we are what we think is shaped by the mind and. it's so striking how madison, like all the founders, was so centrally shaped by books. jefferson sent over a trunk full of books from paris on the failed democracies of greece and rome that madison read in preparation for the constitutional convention and. he took careful notes about what have to the downfall of greece rome, and he concluded his reading that democ forces were liable to being taken over by demagogue dogs and the mob, and he wrote in federalist 55 in all large assemblies of any character composed passion never fails to wrest the scepter. reason even if every athenian had been socrates, athens would still have been a mob. he's convinced that in

james madison knew two things when he wrote the constitution. first, he knew that we needed some law in order to keep us free. you can't be free if you're not safe. on the other hand, he knew that too much law can actually wind up impairing your liberties too. and he was looking for a golden mean when he drafted our constitution. when i sat through mr. de niz robles' case, i began wondering how we're doing on that score. mr. de niz robles faced two contradictory statutes. one said he could apply for citizenship immediately. another said he'd have to leave the country and wait 10 years before applying. what was he supposed to do? the 10th circuit in an earlier desion had held, well, looking at these two statutes, we think the first one controls, so people in his shoes can go ahead and apply. it took the government six years to respond to his application and then they said, we disagree with the 10th circuit's resolution of these two statutes, and we think the second one actually controls. and so, mr. de niz robles, you have to start all over and l

you write in the book about how james madison in particular we are now living in james madison's nightmare. what do you mean by that? how do we get out of it, especially in this day and age of social media? so the it's so wonderful to be here with you and carlos because we're both looking at how what people read their lives and their worldview. and that is the wisdom of the dharma part of we are what we think is shaped by the mind and. it's so striking how madison, like all the founders, was so centrally shaped by books. jefferson sent over a trunk full of books from paris on the failed democracies of greece and rome that madison read in preparation for the constitutional convention and. he took careful notes about what have to the downfall of greece rome, and he concluded his reading that democ forces were liable to being taken over by demagogue dogs and the mob, and he wrote in federalist 55 in all large assemblies of any character composed passion never fails to wrest the scepter. reason even if every athenian had been socrates, athens would still have been a mob. he's convinced that in

unlikely source, page rapport with a header from ajames source, page rapport with a header from a james madisonedro porro from a james maddison cross. meanwhile, oliver skipp hasjoined leicester on a five—year deal from tonight's opponents tottenham, after spurs accepted a bid in excess of £20 million. the 23—year—old has been with the north london club since 2008 and made his first—team debut in 2018. chelsea have agreed a fee, in principle, with atletico madrid for midfielderjoao felix, in a move that will likely see conor gallagher move in the opposite direction. the fee for the 24—year—old portugal international is undisclosed and subject to a medical, but felix is set to return to stamford bridge on a six—year deal, with an option for a further season. he had a loan spell in west london last year, scoring four goals in 20 appearances. he was a sort of underwhelming in that spell, but had had to do a deal to get connor gallagher out of the club. they wanted to sell connor gallagher. it is not because they don't think he is talented, he has less than one year left on his contract and you wan

. >> he has also written books about george washington, james madison, john marshall, alexander hamiltonng father he calls a gentleman revolutionary. now comes his latest. john trumbull lived between 1756 and 1843 and his most famous for his four very large paintings about the revolutionary war on the walls of the rotunda of the u.s. capitol building. >> the latest book, glorious lessons, on this episode of book notes plus. it is available in of the c-span now free mobile lab or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> the house will be in order. >> this year, c-span celebrates 45 years of covering congress like no other. since 1979, we have been your primary source for capitol hill, providing balanced, unfiltered coverage, taking you to where policy is debated and decided. c-span, 45 years and counting. powered by cable. >> the ntsb held an investigative hearing on the january 2024 mid blow out of an alaska airlines door plug. that caused the boeing 737 max 9 aircraft to make an emergency mending. ntsb members questioned executives on the inspection

alexander, james madison and the creation of american oligarchy, published by basic in 2018. jay has a ph.d. from the university of chicago. we'll hear from each of them and and then have a bit of a conversation about it. and we'll start with you, clint. please. and we thank you very much for that very kind introduction. and also thank you very much for inviting me to this very important project. i'm really thrilled to be here to address everyone. so the presentation going to give today is entitled the american revolution and the pursuit of economic equality. what i'll do first is a few words about revolution the senses in which the revolution was understood at the time, and i'll spend most of my time about material conditions in the american colonies before, the revolution, and then i'll close out some comments about some of the ways that the revolutionaries tackled the of economic inequality. so in taking up this question, the revolution which has come up, we of take for granted that it's a revolution, but it's not obvious that that was a term that should have been used or

the james madison council, that is the organization. many how many here are members of the james madison council. okay. well, thank you. this is named after james madison. whose idea it was to have a library of congress. now, he proposed the idea in 1783 and 17 years later, congress finally got around to doing it. but we still admire him for having the idea. took a while to get it. is colleagues in congress agree with it. so i want to thank the members in that chair. mr. madison council. i'd like to thank our patrons and the aarp. and you're going to hear shortly a little bit more about the aarp. i want to thank them for their support. the costar group, thank them. the joint w clooney center and the national endowment for the arts and the national endowment for the humanities. so thank you all for your support. i'd like to also thank our champions, the friends of the library of congress. and there's their logo. and our media partners, led by npr and c-span. we have their logos. okay. and i guess c-span will be televising some of the int

guy burnett and i'm the director of education and research here at the james madison memorial fellowship foundation

if in a free society that wants to govern itself in a liberal democracy that's a republican -- james madison put republican governor presupposes the existence of these kinds of virtues and a higher degree than any form and yet the dominant ethos of liberal democratic life can sometimes undermine that kind of attention through the formation of our society and can tell us what everyone does good and concerns our country away from the cultivation of virtue. there is not a way around that fact but that reality is not in itself an argument against democracy but he cannot deny the extraordinary moral achievement that is a society of free people living together as fellow citizens despite their differences are the extraordinary balance of dynamism and prosperity and moral purpose and commitment to human dignity that our particular liberal democracy has achieved. the fact that the liberal ethos can enter by the precondition for some society is not an argument against the society it's rather an argument working consciously and conscientiously to cultivate the ethos of our society to push against some

if we look at the same great american james madison, who in 1789. you cannot select for me a jury that me and don't like me, and what does this mean, that practically the entire bill of rights can be burned, everything that they did today, they humiliated themselves, they showed the whole world that justice does not exist, what was written in 1789, in 2024 these guys destroyed, they mean that any of us, wherever we are, they will persecute, illegally and arrest, because we... do not speak as they want, because to speak the truth for the truth you should sit in prison. we had cases when our colleagues were simply arrested there, made up. establish censorship, the united states is drifting towards a totalitarian state, if it has not yet turned into one with this about freedom of speech, it is simply impossible to talk about it in any way here and yes, these cases of the american ministry of justice are a violation of a whole series of amendments to the constitution of the united states. and another clear example of abuse of justice is, of course, donald trump, who continues to be subject

james madison, george washington on leadership. what would the founders do? alexander hamilton, american and found father rediscovering washington and i brought copy of my book that my wife gave me shortly after 911. in 2000, one, he has his writings have appeared in the new yorker, the new york times, the wall street journal, the atlantic monthly, time, vanity fair. he is currently a senior editor of national review and a senior fellow at the national review institute. this evening, the podium stands near that place in which we invest emotion in the words of our speaker. because it was where winston churchill was admitted to hereditary membership and, the society in 1947. representing a revolutionary war from whom he was descended. through his american mother. ladies and gentlemen, join me in welcoming richard brookhiser to the podium. thank you for that introduction and thank you for coming out. i'm a repeater here. 25 years ago. i filmed a scene from a documentary for a film of by michael packer, which was rediscovering george washington and did a scene fr