Consequential Actions Podcast
by Jeff Kellick
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Not a Red Line but a Lever: Who Decides Who Governs Europe?
Not a Red Line but a Lever: Who Decides Who Governs Europe?
About this podcast
Our standard is simple: we evaluate every policy, every leader, every turning point by asking the founders’ question updated for our time—Did this leave people more free or more governed?
Episodes
The newest 20 of 101 episodes
- Not a Red Line but a Lever: Who Decides Who Governs Europe? · 39 min · Season 19 Episode 5The Federalist Papers and the European Union: Who Decides Who Governs? On the night of October 30, riot police lined the street outside Poland's Constitutional Tribunal in…
- From a League of Friendship to We the People: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 · 58 min · Season 5 Episode 19From a League of Friendship to We the People: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 Philadelphia, Monday, July 2, 1787. The states answer one motion in turn, an equal vote for…
- Chris Gambino, Independent for PA House District 143 | Closed Primaries · 1 h 11 min · Season 5 Episode 18Chris Gambino, Independent for PA House District 143 | Closed Primaries In some Bucks County homes, a husband and wife register in opposite parties before every primary. They do…
- In All Cases Whatsoever: The Case Against Nationalizing SpaceX · 46 min · Season 5 Episode 18Starlink, Ukraine and the Call to Nationalize SpaceX | Youngstown v. Sawyer In October, the satellite link guiding Ukraine's drones began dropping out above about 100 miles per…
- From the Rights of Englishmen to the Laws of Nature: The Road to the Declaration · 57 min · Season 5 Episode 18From the Rights of Englishmen to the Laws of Nature: The Road to the Declaration In June 1776, Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration called its truths "sacred and…
- Liberty by Default: Ken Krawchuk's Education Plan and the Governor's Veto · 1 h 15 min · Season 5 Episode 17Ken Krawchuk Interview: The Libertarian Running for Pennsylvania Governor Twelve days before Pennsylvania chooses a governor, Libertarian nominee Ken Krawchuk takes up the…
- Incorporation: Does the Bill of Rights Bind the States? Kian v. Florida · 43 min · Season 5 Episode 17Incorporation: Does the Bill of Rights Bind the States? Kian v. Florida In 1789 James Madison asked Congress to bar the states from violating the rights of conscience, the…
- The Mayflower Compact to the Town Meeting: How Colonial New England Governed Itself. “Self-Government Before Theory” · 47 min · Season 5 Episode 17The Mayflower Compact to the Town Meeting: How Colonial New England Governed Itself In November 1620, the Mayflower dropped anchor far outside the only patent its passengers…
- The Houthis vs. Saudi Arabia: Who Can End Yemen’s War? · 45 min · Season 5 Episode 16The Houthis vs. Saudi Arabia: Who Can End Yemen's War? On Saturday a Houthi missile struck Riyadh's airport and killed thirteen people, one of them an American. In Yemen, tribal…
- Did the Iroquois Shape the Constitution? The Great Law of Peace · 33 min · Season 5 Episode 16Did the Iroquois Shape the Constitution? The Great Law of Peace In 1744 an Onondaga speaker told three English colonies to unite as his forefathers had. Franklin printed the…
- Peter McPhee on the French Revolution: Robespierre, the King's Trial, and the Terror · 1 h 4 min · Season 5 Episode 15Who Decides When the Emergency Ends? Peter McPhee on the French Revolution In 1793, France gave sweeping emergency powers to a few committees. Historian Peter McPhee explains…
- The Draft Was Never Repealed. Here Is What Changes in December · 1 h 13 min · Season 5 Episode 15Automatic Draft Registration (Dec. 2026) and the History of the American Draft This December, Selective Service registration becomes automatic. The duty to sign up moves from the…
- Does Majority Consent Make You Free? Voltaire, Rousseau & the General Will · 1 h 28 min · Season 5 Episode 15Self-Evident: The Road to 1776 — Ep. 15 Voltaire vs. Rousseau: Toleration, Consent & the General Will In 1762 a Protestant cloth merchant was broken on the wheel in Toulouse for…
- What Did Your Straight Ticket Buy? Both Parties' Platforms, Graded · 43 min · Season 3What Did Your Straight Ticket Buy? Both Parties' Platforms, Graded. A Contemporary Bonus Episode to the series: Parties, Ideologies, and Systems. A party-line vote is a vote for…
- Humboldt County's Cannabis Fines & the Civil Jury | Jared McClain, Institute for Justice · 1 h 13 min · Season 5 Episode 14Self-Evident: The Road to 1776 — Episode 14i Prosecutor One Day, Judge the Next: Inside America's In-House Courts | Jared McClain Montesquieu wrote that there is no liberty if…
- Massie, Hegseth & the Epstein Petition: Why Congress Stopped Checking · 51 min · Season 5 Episode 14Self-Evident: The Road to 1776 — Episode 14B The House Didn’t Vote No. It Just Went Home. On September 15, 2026, Rep. Thomas Massie read eight articles of impeachment against…
- Everyone Quotes Montesquieu Almost Nobody Reads Past the First Page · 1 h 23 min · Season 5 Episode 14Montesquieu and the Separation of Powers: The Spirit of the Laws Explained In 1748, a retired French magistrate published The Spirit of the Laws anonymously. Within three years…
- Socialist Calculation Debate Explained: Menger, Mises, Hayek and "I, Pencil" in 2026 · 1 h 5 min · Season 5 Episode 13Self-Evident: The Road to 1776 — Episode 13B Nobody Knows How to Make a Pencil. So What Is a Price Actually Telling You? In December 1958, Leonard Read published an essay in…
- Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson: The Wealth of Nations, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, and the Militia Question · 1 h 32 min · Season 5 Episode 13Self-Evident: The Road to 1776 — Episode 13 Adam Smith Made the Case for the Free Market. Then, in the Same Book, He Wrote the Strongest Objection to It. Two men were born in…
- David Evans of Sentiero Ventures on Artificial Intelligence, Lyapunov Time, and the Knowledge Problem | Self-Evident Week 12 · 1 h 8 min · Season 5 Episode 12Self-Evident: The Road to 1776 — Episode 12i I Asked an AI Investor Whether a Machine Could Set Every Rent in New York. He Said It Absolutely Could. David Evans is the founder…
