The Good Government Podcast

The Good Government Podcast
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A podcast about politics, philosophy, literature and history with Aaron Slutkin and Michael Hoffpauir. Find us on X: https://x.com/goodgovtpodcast.

  1. 10/27/2025

    The Good Government Podcast - Ep. 29 - The Framework of the Federalist with Harvey Flaumenhaft

    The Framework of the Federalist with Harvey Flaumenhaft Get Harvey Flaumenhaft's The Framework of the Federalist here: https://bit.ly/48GE1bq  Harvey Flaumenhaft obtained his doctorate in political science at the University of Chicago and has been a member of the senior faculty at St. John’s College, Annapolis for over fifty years. Aaron Slutkin works in academic programming at a national security think tank in Washington DC. Previously, he taught American Government, US History, World Cultures and Religion, and English at Gilman School in Baltimore MD. He is pursuing an MLA at St. John’s College in Annapolis and earned his BA from Duke University where he studied politics, history, and Russian literature. Michael Hoffpauir is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Austin (UATX). A student of political philosophy and American Politics, Hoffpauir earned a PhD from Claremont Graduate University, an MA from Boston College, and a BA from Louisiana State University. The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022. Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959.

    The Good Government Podcast - Ep. 29 - The Framework of the Federalist with Harvey Flaumenhaft

  2. 10/14/2025

    The Good Government Podcast - Episode 28 - Plato's Phaedo with Ronna Burger

    On Plato's Phaedo with Ronna Burger Get Ronna Burger's The Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth here: https://rb.gy/r0g6lz Ronna Burger is the Catherine & Henry J. Gaisman Chair of Philosophy at Tulane University. Aaron Slutkin works in academic programming at a national security think tank in Washington DC. Previously, he taught American Government, US History, World Cultures and Religion, and English at Gilman School in Baltimore MD. He is pursuing an MLA at St. John’s College in Annapolis and earned his BA from Duke University where he studied politics, history, and Russian literature. Michael Hoffpauir is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Austin (UATX). A student of political philosophy and American Politics, Hoffpauir earned a PhD from Claremont Graduate University, an MA from Boston College, and a BA from Louisiana State University. The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022. Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959.

    The Good Government Podcast - Episode 28 - Plato's Phaedo with Ronna Burger

  3. 10/06/2025

    The Good Government Podcast - Episode 27 - Federalist Papers 28-29

    "Seditions and insurrections are, unhappily, maladies as inseparable from the body politic as tumors and eruptions from the natural body" - Publius, Federalist Paper 28   Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959.   Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9    Aaron Slutkin works in academic programming at a national security think tank in Washington DC. Previously, he taught American Government, US History, World Cultures and Religion, and English at Gilman School in Baltimore MD. He is pursuing an MLA at St. John’s College in Annapolis and earned his BA from Duke University where he studied politics, history, and Russian literature.   Michael Hoffpauir is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Austin (UATX). A student of political philosophy and American Politics, Hoffpauir earned a PhD from Claremont Graduate University, an MA from Boston College, and a BA from Louisiana State University.   The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

    The Good Government Podcast - Episode 27 - Federalist Papers 28-29

  4. 09/22/2025

    The Good Government Podcast - Episode 26 - Federalist Paper 27

    "Sorry, I'm keeping quiet because there's a fire truck on the street right now." - AS   Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959.   Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9    Aaron Slutkin works in academic programming at a national security think tank in Washington DC. Previously, he taught American Government, US History, World Cultures and Religion, and English at Gilman School in Baltimore MD. He is pursuing an MLA at St. John’s College in Annapolis and earned his BA from Duke University where he studied politics, history, and Russian literature.   Michael Hoffpauir is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Austin (UATX). A student of political philosophy and American Politics, Hoffpauir earned a PhD from Claremont Graduate University, an MA from Boston College, and a BA from Louisiana State University.   The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

    The Good Government Podcast - Episode 26 - Federalist Paper 27

  5. 09/08/2025

    The Good Government Podcast - Episode 25 - Federalist Paper 26

    "IT WAS a thing hardly to be expected that in a popular revolution the minds of men should stop at that happy mean which marks the salutary boundary between POWER and PRIVILEGE, and combines the energy of government with the security of private rights." - Publius, Federalist Paper 26   Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959.   Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9    Aaron Slutkin works in academic programming at a national security think tank in Washington DC. Previously, he taught American Government, US History, World Cultures and Religion, and English at Gilman School in Baltimore MD. He is pursuing an MLA at St. John’s College in Annapolis and earned his BA from Duke University where he studied politics, history, and Russian literature.   Michael Hoffpauir is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Austin (UATX). A student of political philosophy and American Politics, Hoffpauir earned a PhD from Claremont Graduate University, an MA from Boston College, and a BA from Louisiana State University.   The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

    The Good Government Podcast - Episode 25 - Federalist Paper 26

  6. 08/25/2025

    The Good Government Podcast - Episode 24 - Federalist Papers 24-25

    "For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion." - Publius   Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959.   Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9    Aaron Slutkin works in academic programming at a national security think tank in Washington DC. Previously, he taught American Government, US History, World Cultures and Religion, and English at Gilman School in Baltimore MD. He is pursuing an MLA at St. John’s College in Annapolis and earned his BA from Duke University where he studied politics, history, and Russian literature.   Michael Hoffpauir is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Austin (UATX). A student of political philosophy and American Politics, Hoffpauir earned a PhD from Claremont Graduate University, an MA from Boston College, and a BA from Louisiana State University.   The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

    The Good Government Podcast - Episode 24 - Federalist Papers 24-25

  7. 08/11/2025

    The Good Government Podcast - Episode 23 - On Brutus I

    "Besides, it is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over every thing that stands in their way." – Brutus   Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959.   Brutus I may be found here: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/brutus-i/   Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, his alma mater, where he also coaches football and squash. Slutkin is currently enrolled in the MLA program at St. John's College Annapolis and graduated in 2021 from Duke University, having studied political science, American history, and Russian literature.    Michael Hoffpauir is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Austin (UATX). A student of political philosophy and American Politics, Hoffpauir earned a PhD from Claremont Graduate University, an MA from Boston College, and a BA from Louisiana State University.   The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

    The Good Government Podcast - Episode 23 - On Brutus I

  8. 07/28/2025

    The Good Government Podcast - Episode 22 - Federalist Paper 23

    "The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed." On Federalist Paper 23.  Music is from the second movement (Largo) from Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.9 (a.k.a. the "New World Symphony"), performed by the Orchestre national de France in 1959. Readings are from this edition of The Federalist Papers: https://tinyurl.com/32bpyaz9 Aaron Slutkin is an Upper School history teacher at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, his alma mater, where he also coaches football and squash. Slutkin is currently enrolled in the MLA program at St. John's College Annapolis and graduated in 2021 from Duke University, having studied political science, American history, and Russian literature.  Michael Hoffpauir is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Austin (UATX). A student of political philosophy and American Politics, Hoffpauir earned a PhD from Claremont Graduate University, an MA from Boston College, and a BA from Louisiana State University. The two met at Hudson Institute Political Studies, a summer fellowship in political theory based in Washington, D.C., where Hoffpauir has taught since 2018 and Slutkin has TA'd since 2022.

    The Good Government Podcast - Episode 22 - Federalist Paper 23
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