Episode 23: Princeton Palaver Present

June 16, 2021

Akhil and Andy move the discussion to today’s Princeton University and some of its greatest scholars; they find both coherence and controversy.

Akhil and Andy move from The College of New Jersey – Princeton in the period of America’s Founding – to the Princeton University of today, and discuss matters of agreement and disagreement between Akhil and some of the Orange and Black’s leading faculty lights.  Topics range from the 1619 project to the Electoral College and some of Andrew Jackson’s most controversial and misunderstood statements.  Finally, everything you never knew you wanted to know about property is revealed.

Show Notes:

No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding by Sean Wilentz.  Harvard University Press, 2019.  More information by clicking the link for amazon.com ordering page.

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Andrew Jackson, Message Accompanying Veto of Bank Bill

July 10, 1832.  President Andrew Jackson vetoes the bill authorizing The Bank of the United States; this message accompanied the veto.  Jackson’s constitutional views, often misinterpreted, are discussed.

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