#14 - Federalist 1 and a Politics of Interest

On the fourteenth episode of The Constitutionalist, Shane Leary and Dr. Benjamin Kleinerman discuss Federalist no. 1, and the way in which our politics have moved away from interests and towards symbolism and ideology at the expense of unity. We'd like to issue a correction for this episode. During our discussion of the FDA, it was mistakenly said that two of the last forty FDA Commissioners had not worked for Big Pharma following their tenure with the FDA. The intended statistic was two over the last forty years. While we could have removed the incorrect statement in post or rerecorded the section, we believe that podcasting as a medium is first and foremost conversational, and as such, a conversation should leave room for errors which are otherwise carefully controlled for in more sterile informational environments. The Constitutionalist is a podcast cohosted by Professor Benjamin Kleinerman, the RW Morrison Professor of Political Science at Baylor University and Founder and Editor of The Constitutionalist Blog, and his student, Shane Leary. Each week, they discuss political news in light of its constitutional implications, and explore a unique constitutional topic, ranging from the thoughts and experiences of America's founders and statesmen, historical episodes, and the broader philosophic ideas that influence the American experiment in government.