93 weeks of bangers, one week at a time
I absolutely love federalistreader.org, a project from Vann Walke, which presents The Federalist Papers in a pleasing online format. If you subscribe via email the site will deliver one missive a week, “the eighty-five papers and the eight essays that answered them, in the order the debate reached readers, for ninety-three weeks.”
I’m currently on Federalist No. IV, “The Same Subject Continued (Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence).” And if you’re wondering if there’s any relevance to today’s headlines, well…
It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it; nay, absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans. These and a variety of other motives, which affect only the mind of the sovereign, often lead him to engage in wars not sanctified by justice or the voice and interests of his people.
Today is day 177 of the Iran war; one that is not sanctified by justice or the voice and interests of the American people.