Seth Paskin

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1,271 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 21 Sep

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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Ep. 397: Federalist Papers LIVE (Part One) · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

One of the things I like a uh seventy is I guess like the other ones, they illustrate these tensions about podcast-host

Things that are actually genuinely good, uh, that you have to still balance with their excesses. podcast-host

And so Hamilton goes hard on the idea that you really need to have a vibrant executive in order to be effective. podcast-host

Good government means having things get done. podcast-host

And having a plurality is going a plural uh executive is going to temper that and make it difficult for there to be actual effective execution. podcast-host

And as as Mark said, that tempering in his mind was coming from the the rest of the government. podcast-host

The challenge, of course, with effective execution is the control of the execution. podcast-host

And this theme is throughout all of these. podcast-host

Every branch of government is because, well, there's a virtue of this branch of government. podcast-host

This is a thing that's going to do well, and we want to enable it to do it well. podcast-host

But there's things that are going to screw it up. podcast-host

And if it does these things wrong or or improperly or not effectively, then it's going to be a problem. podcast-host

And so you get this kind of classic thing that podcast-host

Most of us learned in civics class. podcast-host

Like the branches of government were designed to sort of distribute power and work against one another and in concert with one another to sort of balance out their powers, the checks and balances argument. podcast-host

And I think you get that illustrated here. podcast-host

And I think you also get illustrated a certain kind of hopefulness about where those podcast-host

ultimate checks and balances are going to be come from. podcast-host

This one I think you particularly see that podcast-host

The way in which your government runs ultimately is going to depend upon the individual people that are in the government. podcast-host

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