Michael Gerhardt, author of the new book FDR’s Mentors: Navigating the Path to Greatness, and Andrew Busch, author of Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right, join Jeffrey Rosen to explore the pivotal elections of 1932 and 1980. They compare the transformative presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, and trace how founding-era debates between Hamilton and Jefferson over the scope of federal and executive power re-emerged during the New Deal and Reagan Revolution. This program originally streamed live on April 16, 2024.
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19th Amendment: Origins, History, and Legacy
The Constitutional Bounds of Executive Action
Live at the NCC: The 19th Amendment: The Untold Story
American Elections During Crisis
Portland, Protests and Presidential Power
The Future of Church and State at SCOTUS
State Attorneys General Keith Ellison and Dave Yost
Has the Roberts Court Arrived?
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
The Supreme Court’s DACA Decision
LGBTQ Employees’ Rights at the Supreme Court
Live at the NCC: Policing, Protests, and the Constitution Part 2
Live at the NCC: Policing, Protests, and the Constitution Part 1
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“Faithless Electors” Supreme Court Argument Recap
Supreme Court Remote Argument Recaps Part 2
The Supreme Court’s First Remote Argument – A Recap
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