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Podcast: The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
Episode: John Adams Was Not an Originalist | Interview: Lindsay Chervinsky
Description: In the second installment of The Remnant’s unofficial presidential-biographers series, Jonah Goldberg powwows with Lindsay Chervinsky about John Adams, the Alien and Sedition Acts, unwritten laws, the pardon power, and the centrality of the Continental Army to the development of American identity.
Plus, Jonah asks Lindsay about his favorite libertarian urban myth.
Shownotes:—Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic—List of vice presidents of the United States—Remnant on Martin Van Buren—George Washington’s cover letter—Jeffrey Rosen - The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hami...