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Luke talks with Daniel Lazare about current events. Dan is the author of The Frozen Republic, The Velvet Coup, and America’s Undeclared War. He has written several articles for the blog and appeared on the podcast two other times (here and here).

Dan covers several topics, including the meaning of a “constitutional crisis,” Trump’s concentration of executive power, the importance of Thomas Hobbes and sovereignty, the Declaration of Independence, 50501 protests, and his latest article, “Cali-Fragmentation: What’s Madison Got to Do With It?”

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