I think I am using this mobile post like twittter though I have more space in which to write.
I am listening to Start the Week, BBC Radio 4. I access it as a podcast as part of my Monday morning breakfast ritual. I do, that is, if it is postedin time.
Today's episode is fascinating. It is about, part, the Federalist papers. I haven't encountered the Federalist Papers since high school. And the crazy thing, in another context, one of the panelists mentioned Richard Hofstadter. We used one of his books in the same class we read the Federalist Papers. In fact, it may have been his edition of the Federalist Papers.
What a pleasure to listen to a serious discussion of them in the context of the election. One panelist said one of the issues in the campaign is federalism versus anti-federalism, just the same thing Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay were dealing with when they wrote the essays to try to get New York to vote for the Constitution. NYC was for union but the rural areas were not. There is nothingnew under the sun.
