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S4 E2: “The Excess of Democracy”

  • January 22, 2020
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Pelham Town Hall, Pelham, Massachusetts, the site of meetings for the farmers’ protest movement that came to be called Shays’ Rebellion, in 1786-7.

In the summer of 1787, fifty-five men got together in Philadelphia to write a new Constitution for the United States, replacing the new nation’s original blueprint, the Articles of Confederation. But why, exactly? What problems…

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2x Peabody-nominated podcast hosted by John Biewen @KenanEthics. Season 7: "Capitalism,” on the history of our current economic system and if we can do better.

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In our podcast feed: John Biewen reads a new newsletter essay on his hometown, Mankato, Minn., and on historical maturity vs. cowardice.

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