I just got done reading the first essay of The Federalist, and I think I’m going to try to read all eighty-five of them over the next couple months, largely for the sake of better teaching in the future.
Whenever I teach Plato I try to point out to my students the influences of the old Greek on our ways of thinking as well as our departures from his political vision, and I realized at some point that I need more background on American intellectual history if I’m going to do that well.
So Federalist One is read. Eighty-four to go.
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September 10, 2009 at 5:17 pm
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