ConCon Live! from ISI’s Homecoming with Daniel Mahoney and Jeff Sessions

In this episode:ISI’s Conservative Book of the Year Award Winner Daniel Mahoney and former attorney general and senator Jeff Sessions join the podcast for a live interview with Johnny about Dan’s book The Statesman as Thinkerwhether the Founders were too successful in setting up a system of checks and balances that ultimately undermined statesmanship of “great-souled men”the pathologies of American education, and the need for alternative institutions to excite the “life of the mind” and a serious commitment to the pursuit of truthTexts Mentioned:The Statesman as Thinker by Daniel J. MahoneyThe American Commonwealth by Lord James BryceDemocracy in America by Alexis de TocquevilleThe Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John JayThe Life of George Washington by John MarshallOn Duties by CiceroHis Excellency: George Washington by Joseph EllisThe Logic of Liberty by Michael Polanyi“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick DouglassWinston Churchill MIT Commencement SpeechMeditations by Marcus AureliusBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events