All Episodes

Ep. 83: Robert Levine on Frederick Douglass, Andrew Johnson, and the Impeachment of a President

Ep. 82: Tad Stoermer on the Resistance History of the United States

250 Years Without Democracy: The Significance of the Declaration of Independence

Audio Article: What Would it Mean to Finish Reconstruction?

Ep 81: Dylan Penningroth on the Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

Ep. 80: Guy Aitchison on Popular Resistance and the Idea of Rights

Ep. 79: Clyde Barrow on the Life and Times of Charles A. Beard

Ep. 78: Richard Wolff on Marxism, Trump, and Political and Economic Democracy

DSA Presentation: Reconstruction and Radical Republicanism

Audio Article: The Voting Rights Rollback Shows We Need a New Constitution

Ep. 77: Gil Schaeffer on the Declaration of Independence, Tom Paine, Lenin, and Reconstruction

Ep. 76: August Nimtz on Frederick Douglass, Karl Marx, and the American Civil War

Ep. 75: Beau J. Baumann on Russell Vought, the Unitary Executive, and the LPE Project

Ep. 74: Oliver Larkin on Running for Congress and Fighting for Democracy

Ep. 73: Clyde Barrow on C. Wright Mills, Nicos Poulantzas, and the Undemocratic State

Ep. 72: Corey Brooks on the Liberty Party and Antislavery Third Parties

Ep. 71: Terry Bouton on America Monarchism and the Thermidorian Reaction to 1776

Ep. 70: Terry Bouton on the People, the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution

Ep. 69: Patrick Rael on the Abolitionist Struggle and the Long Death of Slavery

Ep. 68: José Luis Granados Ceja on Venezuela, Mexico, and the Struggle for Democracy

Ep. 67: Jason Maloy on the Paine-Adams Debate and Its Seventeenth-Century Antecedents

Ep. 66: Woody Holton on Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

Ep. 65: Gerald Horne on the Constitution, (Counter-)Revolutions, and Internationalism

Ep. 64: Tad Stoermer on Public History, Political Myths, and an Alternative History of the Declaration of Independence

Ep. 63: Michael Fox on Venezuela and the US's Long Shadow over Latin America

Audio Article: Toward A New American Founding

Ep. 62: David Waldstreicher on Slavery's Constitution

Audio Article: The Year in Review

Upcoming Reading Group on the Undemocratic Constitution

Ep. 61: Don Doyle on the International History of the American Civil War

Ep. 60: Gary Dorrien on Morality, Rights, and American Democratic Socialism

Ep. 59: Gregory Downs on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Collapse of Republican Dreams

Audio Article: Cease Being Autocratic

Ep. 58: Van Gosse on the First Reconstruction, Antebellum Historiography, and the New Left

Audio Article: The Wheels Are Falling Off

Ep. 57: Robert Tsai on America's Forgotten Constitutions

Audio Article: Terror Tuesday Redux

Audio Article: Proposition 50: A Race to the Bottom

Ep 56: Alec Karakatsanis on Copaganda and America's Punishment Bureaucracies

Ep. 55: Greg and John on Constitutional Education and Move to Amend

Ep. 54: Manisha Sinha on the Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic

Ep. 53: Jonathan Eig on the Life and Times of Martin Luther King

Ep. 52: Matthew Stewart on Religion, Abolitionism, and the Making of America

Ep. 51: Jalil Muntaqim on the Spirit of Mandela Coalition and the Mobilization Against Genocide

Audio Article: A Heavy Heritage

Ep. 50: Bruce Levine on Thaddeus Stevens and the Relevance of History

Audio Article: An Inescapable Network of Mutuality

Audio Article: Houston, We Have a Problem

Audio Article: Zohran Mamdani is Wrong About Democracy

Ep 49: Kermit Roosevelt on Reconstructing America's Story

Audio Article: DC Deserves Statehood

Ep. 48: Leah Downey on Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters

Audio Article: To Protect Voting Rights, We Need a Democratic Constitution

Ep. 47: Rogers Smith on America’s New Racial Battle Lines

Ep. 46: Osita Nwanevu on Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding

Ep. 45: Zaakir Tameez on Charles Sumner and the Reconstructed Constitution

Ep. 44: Douglas Egerton on Reconstruction and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Ep. 43: Gil Schaeffer on Lenin, King, and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement

Ep. 42: Daniel Lazare on Where Things Stand

Ep. 41: Dan Farbman on Abolitionism and Resistance Lawyering

Weekly Recap

Audio Article: Two Hundred and Fifty Years Without Democracy is Long Enough

Audio Article: Trump and Birthright Citizenship

Ep. 40: Stephen Pimpare on Donald Trump's Emergence and the Constitution

Audio Article: Democratic in Name Only

Weekly Recap

Ep. 39: Gregory Claeys on Tom Paine's Social and Political Thought

Ep. 38: Mariano Guevara Recaps Mexico's Judicial Elections

Audio Article: Forward and Over

Weekly Recap

Ep. 37: Bruce Watson on Freedom Summer and Moral Motivation

Audio Article: Build Something Better

Audio Article: Starting Point

Ep. 36: Lynn Hunt on the Development of Human Rights

Audio Article: David Hogg, the Democratic Party, and the Oligarchic US Constitution

Audio Article: The Vise Tightens

Ep. 35: Greg Grandin on 'The End of the Myth' and 'America, América'

Ep. 34: Austin Sarat on the Death Penalty and Building a New Constitution

Ep. 33: Erwin Chemerinsky on 'No Democracy Lasts Forever'

Ep. 32: Alfredo and Sami on Mexico's Judicial Elections

Ep. 31: Mariano Guevara on Mexico's Judicial Elections

Ep. 30: Gary Berton on Thomas Paine's Unfinished Struggle for Democracy

Ep. 29: Samuel Moyn on Misplaced Faith in the Courts

Audio Article: The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil

Ep. 28: Steven Raney on DSA, YDSA, and the Current Moment

Audio Article: A New Foundation

Ep. 27: Ricardo Miranda on Mexico's Constitution and the Programa Universitario de Estudios sobre Democracia, Justicia y Sociedad (PUEDJS-UNAM)

Ep. 26: Aziz Rana on Democracy as a Decolonial Project

Ep. 25: Gil Schaeffer on Equal Human and Political Rights and Democratic Republicanism

Ep. 24: Daniel Lazare on Trump, Constitutional Crises, Sovereignty, and U.S. History

Ep. 23: Alfredo and Sami on Morena and the Political Landscape in Mexico

Ep. 22: Matt McManus on Liberalism, Tom Paine, C.B. Macpherson, and Political Rights

Audio Article: Captive Workers

Audio Article: Project 2026

Ep. 21: Louis Michael Seidman on Constitutional Skepticism and Disobedience

Audio Article: The Filibuster Stays

Ep. 20: Alexander Gourevitch on Economic and Political Freedom

Ep. 19: Richard Albert on Amending the Constitution and Comparative Constitutionalism

Ep. 18: Lisa Miller on Checks and Balances, Federalism, and the Dangers of “Constitutional Myths”

Ep. 17: Sam and Tyler on Proportional Representation and the 'Voters Deserve More' Project

Trump's Victory and Implications for the U.S., England, and the Rest of the United Kingdom

Audio Article: Ben Studebaker’s Good-Bad Book on the Great American Breakdown

Audio Article: The Many Problems With Policing

Audio Article: Why Talk With Socialists?

Audio Article: What Is To Be Done?

Audio Article: Meltdown 2.0

Audio Article: Marxism Is Democratic Republicanism: The History of the Struggle for Equal Human and Political Rights From the Inside Out

Audio Article: Obama and The Breakfast Club

Audio Article: Is the Constitution Unconstitutional?

Ep. 16: Thomas Geoghegan on the Infernal Senate

The Democratic Constitution Podcast: Daniel Lazare on Trump's Victory

Audio Article: Past, Present, and Future

Audio Article: We Need Clarity and Consistency, Not More Nuance

Audio Article: What Should DSA Do After the Election?

Audio Article: Electoral College Redux

Audio Article: The Crisis of Democracy and the 2024 Election

Audio Article: Fighting for True Democracy: A Socialist Primer on the Constitution’s Structural Provisions

Audio Article: A Perfect Storm?

Ep. 15: Robert Ovetz on Going Beyond the Constitution

Ep. 14: The SPA's Constitutional Critique

Ep. 13: Samuel Moyn on the 'Devil You Know' and Liberalism Against Itself

Ep. 12: Aziz Rana on SCOTUS and Reactions to 'The Constitutional Bind'

Ep. 11: Roaming Thoughts on the Presidential Debate

Ep. 10: Harvey J. Kaye on the Lasting Influence of Tom Paine

Ep. 9: Reconstruction, The Second Founding, and Universal and Equal Rights

Ep. 8: Michael Klarman on the Constitution's Origins and Contemporary Problems

Ep. 7: Caleb Brennan on Reimagining the Constitutional Order

Bonus Ep: A Socialist Critique of the Constitution

Bonus Ep: The Left's Rediscovery of Democratic Republicanism

Ep. 6: Oren S on Proportional Representation and the Path Toward Democracy

Ep. 5: Rashad X on DSA, FORC, and Working Toward a Democratic Constitution

Ep. 4: Thomas Paine and the Democratic Republic

Ep. 2: Mexican Politics and Supreme Court Discourse

Ep. 3: Daniel Lazare on Worshipping the Constitution

Ep. 1: Introducing the Democratic Constitution Podcast