When the first Civil Service Reform Act passed in 1883, “good government” reformers envisioned nonpartisan civil servants fairly administering the federal bureaucracy. From the vantage point of 2016, it is clear this dream has turned into a nightmare.
John Marini with Charles Kesler
Charles Kesler interviews John Marini on the Western and political thought; Westerns and the American story; President Nixon vs. the administrative state; individual rights vs. the administrative state; and the Constitution vs. the administrative state.
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Charles Kesler interviews Yuval Levin on the debate between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine; political philosophy; the tension between Left and Right; and the Founding.
Dr. John Eastman, Founding Director of the Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, discusses the meaning of the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause.
Charles Kesler interviews Christopher DeMuth on civil rights, neoconservatives, and problems without solutions; the rise of the administrative state; fighting the administrative state; the coming crisis of the national debt and deficit problem; and new institutions and the think tank phenomenon.
Is America in a cold civil war? The Claremont Institute and Heritage Foundation team up to discuss the deep divide our country now finds itself in.
