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.
The Federalist Papers: Explained
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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.
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3/19/2026
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July 2, 2026
Federalist No. 16 Explained: You Can't Put a State in Jail
<p>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 Hamilton's demolition of that idea — a step-by-step walkthrough of how the first attempt to coerce a state would turn into the war that ends the union. The way out is the Constitution's deepest design change: laws that reach individual people through courts, instead of laws that can only be enforced against states by armies. This episode follows that idea from a failed amendment Madison drafted, through a state that defied Congress to its face and got away with it, to the moment forty-five years later when South Carolina put Hamilton's prediction to the test.</p>
June 25, 2026
Federalist No. 15 Explained: Why America's First Government Failed
<p>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 down to one design flaw: a government whose laws are addressed to states instead of people can never be more than a suggestion. This episode follows Hamilton from the frozen camp at Valley Forge to the angriest essay in the series so far, and explains the single idea that separates a real country from a league of friends.</p>
June 18, 2026
Federalist No. 14 Explained: Is America Too Big to Govern?
<p>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 very start: that the country is simply too big to govern itself. Madison answers with a definition, a map, and a ruler — and then, in the closing paragraphs, the quietest man of the founding generation writes the most passionate passage in all eighty-five papers, a defense of doing what has never been done before.</p>
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