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Sep 16, 2026

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Ryan ShinkelHOST
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Welcome to Madison's Notes, the official podcast of the James Madison Program in American ideals and institutions at Princeton University.
Ryan ShinkelHOST
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I'm your host, Ryan Schinkel.
Ryan ShinkelHOST
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As we continue season six, I have as our guest, the writer and cultural critic, Matthew Gazda, the author of several novels, such as The Sleepers, 2025, and Strange Beauty, upcoming 2026.
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Ryan ShinkelHOST
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Welcome to Madison's Notes, the official podcast of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.
Ryan ShinkelHOST
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I'm your host, Ryan Schinkel.
Ryan ShinkelHOST
0:38
As we continue season six, I have as our guest, the writer and cultural critic, Matthew Gazda, the author of several novels, such as The Sleepers, 2025, and Strange Beauty, upcoming 2026.
Peter LipsetHOST
1:38
Few people understand the landscape and the hard work and continuous work required in all this than our guest today, Professor Robert P. George.
Peter LipsetHOST
1:46
Robbie, to many of you listening who probably have interacted with him in the past, he is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and founder of its influential James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.
Peter LipsetHOST
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But that is just a portion of all of the things that he is involved with to try to inspire students and to challenge not just Princeton, but universities everywhere to continue to improve, expand their dialogue, and get better.
Peter LipsetHOST
2:13
So today we're going to talk about what he's learned, building that program, building other programs, the state of higher ed, the state of the right, broadly.

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Peter LipsetHOST
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They're kind of pouring the truth in.
Peter LipsetHOST
7:54
And there's another thought that just says basically the students come in, say what they want to learn, and the professors reinforce it.
Peter LipsetHOST
8:02
Your Madison Center is different, and it is trying, I think, trying to get back to – to some of those, that dialogue, right? Those things that inspired you.
Peter LipsetHOST
8:12
Talk to us about that center, well, state of higher ed in general.
Rick GraberHOST
2:22
He's one of the country's leading historians of Lincoln and the Civil War a free-time winner of the Lincoln Prize and the author of Gettysburg, The Last Invasion in Our Ancient Faith, Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment.
Rick GraberHOST
2:38
Before joining the Hamilton School, he was the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar in the James Madison Program at Princeton University.
Rick GraberHOST
2:48
Dr. Gelso is a 2018 Bradley Prize recipient.
Rick GraberHOST
2:53
Jim, welcome to Voices of Freedom, and Alan, welcome back.
Nicole AultPANELIST
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So some states have done this for civics education.
Nicole AultPANELIST
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A couple examples he mentions are the University of Florida's Hamilton Center or the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton.
Nicole AultPANELIST
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But I believe there's a center, the Chase Center at Ohio State has a focus now on classical education and promoting that and I believe there's something being started at Florida State University as well.
Nicole AultPANELIST
26:08
So just bringing more faculty and students who are interested in Western civilization and traditional ways of teaching and knowledge into the system is also essential to turning the tide on this.
Sean WilentzHOST
3:44
James Patterson is a professor of politics at the Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee and a contributing editor at Law and Liberty.
Sean WilentzHOST
3:53
Thomas D. Howes is a member of the James Madison Program and a lecturer at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, my employer, among other things.
Sean WilentzHOST
4:04
um welcome to the court of history to you both their book why post-liberalism failed published by the acton institute is this is a discussion of what they call post-liberalism others are called the post-liberalism a kind of you know loose movement of of catholic reactionaries really But they're trying to make a statement about it in terms of its origins, its intellectual origins, locating it not in the way they might pass it as a kind of medieval, pre-modern Christian politics, but as something very modern and as something very dangerous, a post-Enlightenment ideology that's kind of, what should we say, decked out in medieval garb.
Sean WilentzHOST
4:46
But it's really something that's very modern and it's basically fascist.
Ryan SchinkelHOST
0:05
Welcome to Madison's Notes, the official podcast of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.
Ryan SchinkelHOST
0:13
I'm your host, Ryan Schinkel.
Ryan SchinkelHOST
0:24
Today, as we continue season six, I have as our guest the essayist Ivan Keneally to discuss the ironic political philosophy of Mark Twain, a contributor to the New Atlantis and First Things, among other publications.
Ryan SchinkelHOST
0:05
Welcome to Madison's Notes, the official podcast of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.
Ryan SchinkelHOST
0:13
I'm your host, Ryan Schinkel.
Ryan SchinkelHOST
0:24
Today, as we continue season six, I have as our guest the essayist Ivan Keneally to discuss the ironic political philosophy of Mark Twain, a contributor to the New Atlantis and First Things, among other publications.
Ryan SchinkelHOST
0:05
Welcome to Madison's Notes, the official podcast of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.
Ryan SchinkelHOST
0:13
I'm your host, Ryan Schinkel.
Ryan SchinkelHOST
0:24
Today, as we continue season six, I have as our guest the essayist Ivan Keneally to discuss the ironic political philosophy of Mark Twain, a contributor to the New Atlantis and First Things, among other publications.
Ryan SchinkelHOST
0:05
Welcome to Madison's Notes, the official podcast of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.
Ryan SchinkelHOST
0:13
I'm your host, Ryan Schinkel.
Ryan SchinkelHOST
0:24
Today, as we continue season six, I have as our guest the essayist Ivan Keneally to discuss the ironic political philosophy of Mark Twain, a contributor to the New Atlantis and First Things, among other publications.

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