In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with John Pinheiro, director of research at the Acton Institute, about his latest contribution to Law & Liberty, “A Failure of Vision,” a review of legal theorist Robert C. Hockett’s A Republic of Producers. The wide-ranging conversation touches upon the American Republic’s early history, 20th-century interpretations of it, the sorts of lessons that history can teach us, those it cannot, and the trustworthiness of non-historians attempting to do history.

A Republic of Producers: Completing Our Jeffersonian Economy with Hamiltonian Finance | Robert C. Hockett

Notes on the State of Virginia | Thomas Jefferson

The Promise of American Life | Herbert David Croly

A Student's Guide to U.S. History | Wilfred M. McClay

Federalist No. 51

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life | Friedrich Nietzsche

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John Pinheiro on Alexander Hamilton’s and Thomas Jefferson's Conflicting Visions