How Often Did the Founders Think About Rome? | Dr. Khalil Habib

Conservative Conversations with ISI

In this episode:

• Khalil Habib joins Conservative Conversations in an episode that covers a wide range of great thinkers, including Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Polybius, Livy, Lucretius, Tocqueville, and Edmund Burke
• why republics tend to become empires, and how the Founders used the history of the classical world when thinking about the Constitution
• how Napoleon fits into the story and meaning of the French Revolution

Texts Mentioned:

• Discourses on Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Considerations on the Causes of Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline by Montesquieu
• The History of Rome by Livy
• The Histories by Polybius
• On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
• The Federalist Papers
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
• The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville
• The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Discourse on the Arts and Sciences by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• “Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol” by Edmund Burke

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