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Check out our latest event, a panel on "The Second Trump Impeachment" with Benjamin Kleinerman (Baylor University), Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin), and John Yoo (University of California at Berkeley). Panel recorded on February 3, 2021. Presented by the Constitutional Studies program at the University of Notre Dame and The Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier. About the Panelists: Benjamin A. Kleinerman is a Professor of Political Science at Baylor University where he teaches classes on political thought and political institutions. He also is on the Board of Directors of the Jack Miller Center. Kleinerman is the author of The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power. Jeffrey Tulis is Professor of Government at The University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book (co-authored with Nicole Mellow) is Legacies of Losing in American Politics (Chicago, 2018). Tulis authored The Rhetorical Presidency in 1987, considered the preeminent scholarship on the evolution of presidential rhetoric. John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His most recent book is Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power, published July 2020.
# Episode Notes
Nicole Mellow on the beautiful losers in American politics who have redefined the country.
Donald Trump famously said “We're going to win so much you may even get tired of winning.” Tell that to the losers of politics; those who have lost major elections or key political debates. We rarely focus on those who have lost, but Jeffrey Tulis and Nicole Mellow suggest we can learn a lot from the losers. In Legacies of Losing in American Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2018), they demonstrate that in three key points in American political history, the losing side won a lot more than we typically acknowledge or understand. Focusing on the founding period, the Civil War era, and the time after the passage of the New Deal, they show how the direction of the country was greatly shaped by defeat. Tulis teaches American politics and political theory at the University of Texas at Austin. Mellow is professor of political science at Williams College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Donald Trump famously said “We’re going to win so much you may even get tired of winning.” Tell that to the losers of politics; those who have lost major elections or key political debates. We rarely focus on those who have lost, but Jeffrey Tulis and Nicole Mellow suggest we can learn a lot from the losers. In Legacies of Losing in American Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2018), they demonstrate that in three key points in American political history, the losing side won a lot more than we typically acknowledge or understand. Focusing on the founding period, the Civil War era, and the time after the passage of the New Deal, they show how the direction of the country was greatly shaped by defeat. Tulis teaches American politics and political theory at the University of Texas at Austin. Mellow is professor of political science at Williams College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Donald Trump famously said “We’re going to win so much you may even get tired of winning.” Tell that to the losers of politics; those who have lost major elections or key political debates. We rarely focus on those who have lost, but Jeffrey Tulis and Nicole Mellow suggest we can learn a lot from the losers. In Legacies of Losing in American Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2018), they demonstrate that in three key points in American political history, the losing side won a lot more than we typically acknowledge or understand. Focusing on the founding period, the Civil War era, and the time after the passage of the New Deal, they show how the direction of the country was greatly shaped by defeat. Tulis teaches American politics and political theory at the University of Texas at Austin. Mellow is professor of political science at Williams College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Donald Trump famously said “We’re going to win so much you may even get tired of winning.” Tell that to the losers of politics; those who have lost major elections or key political debates. We rarely focus on those who have lost, but Jeffrey Tulis and Nicole Mellow suggest we can learn a lot from the losers. In Legacies of Losing in American Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2018), they demonstrate that in three key points in American political history, the losing side won a lot more than we typically acknowledge or understand. Focusing on the founding period, the Civil War era, and the time after the passage of the New Deal, they show how the direction of the country was greatly shaped by defeat. Tulis teaches American politics and political theory at the University of Texas at Austin. Mellow is professor of political science at Williams College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Donald Trump famously said “We’re going to win so much you may even get tired of winning.” Tell that to the losers of politics; those who have lost major elections or key political debates. We rarely focus on those who have lost, but Jeffrey Tulis and Nicole Mellow suggest we can learn a lot from the losers. In Legacies of Losing in American Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2018), they demonstrate that in three key points in American political history, the losing side won a lot more than we typically acknowledge or understand. Focusing on the founding period, the Civil War era, and the time after the passage of the New Deal, they show how the direction of the country was greatly shaped by defeat. Tulis teaches American politics and political theory at the University of Texas at Austin. Mellow is professor of political science at Williams College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices