Conservative Conversations with ISI How Often Did the Founders Think About Rome? | Dr. Khalil Habib
Dec 5, 2023
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In this episode:
- Khalil Habib joins Conservative Conversations in an episode that covers a wide range of great thinkers, including Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Polybius, Livy, Lucretius, Tocqueville, and Edmund Burke
- why republics tend to become empires, and how the Founders used the history of the classical world when thinking about the Constitution
- how Napoleon fits into the story and meaning of the French Revolution
Texts Mentioned:
- Discourses on Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Considerations on the Causes of Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline by Montesquieu
- The History of Rome by Livy
- The Histories by Polybius
- On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
- The Federalist Papers
- Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
- The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville
- The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
- A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Discourse on the Arts and Sciences by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- “Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol” by Edmund Burke
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