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Consequential Actions Podcast

Jeff Kellick

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?

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102 episodes

  1. The Loyal Opposition: The Anti-Federalists and the Ratification of the Constitution 52:15
  2. Kevin Gutzman on James Madison and the Constitution 1:06:03
  3. Not a Red Line but a Lever: Who Decides Who Governs Europe? 38:54
  4. From a League of Friendship to We the People: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 58:16
  5. Chris Gambino, Independent for PA House District 143 | Closed Primaries 1:11:28
  6. In All Cases Whatsoever: The Case Against Nationalizing SpaceX 46:06
  7. From the Rights of Englishmen to the Laws of Nature: The Road to the Declaration 56:45
  8. Liberty by Default: Ken Krawchuk's Education Plan and the Governor's Veto 1:15:49
  9. Incorporation: Does the Bill of Rights Bind the States? Kian v. Florida 42:39
  10. The Mayflower Compact to the Town Meeting: How Colonial New England Governed Itself. “Self-Government Before Theory” 46:57
  11. The Houthis vs. Saudi Arabia: Who Can End Yemen’s War? 44:47
  12. Did the Iroquois Shape the Constitution? The Great Law of Peace 33:24
  13. Peter McPhee on the French Revolution: Robespierre, the King's Trial, and the Terror 1:04:46
  14. The Draft Was Never Repealed. Here Is What Changes in December 1:13:15
  15. Does Majority Consent Make You Free? Voltaire, Rousseau & the General Will 1:28:28
  16. What Did Your Straight Ticket Buy? Both Parties' Platforms, Graded 42:56
  17. Humboldt County's Cannabis Fines & the Civil Jury | Jared McClain, Institute for Justice 1:13:32
  18. Massie, Hegseth & the Epstein Petition: Why Congress Stopped Checking 51:01
  19. Everyone Quotes Montesquieu Almost Nobody Reads Past the First Page 1:23:07
  20. Socialist Calculation Debate Explained: Menger, Mises, Hayek and "I, Pencil" in 2026 1:05:01
  21. Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson: The Wealth of Nations, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, and the Militia Question 1:32:01
  22. David Evans of Sentiero Ventures on Artificial Intelligence, Lyapunov Time, and the Knowledge Problem | Self-Evident Week 12 1:08:26
  23. NYC Municipal Grocery Stores, the Rent Freeze, and Federal Equity Stakes: Hume's Knowledge Problem in 2026 57:55
  24. Hutcheson, Hume, and the Scottish Enlightenment: Undesigned Order Before It Had a Name 1:25:38
  25. James Ostrowski on the 1689 Arms Clause, the NY SAFE Act Reversal, and Government Takes 80% 1:20:30
  26. A Tax Expired at Midnight. Another Took Its Place in the Same Minute. 1:02:05
  27. In the Age of Trump and Biden, Victor Davis Hanson Is Wrong About Third Parties 2:05:27
  28. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the English Bill of Rights 1:13:06
  29. Dr. Thomas Laehn, LP Candidate for US Senate — On Locke, Eminent Domain, and Jury Nullification 1:06:55
  30. Scribere Est Agere: When a Government Turns Your Writing Into an Act 54:53
  31. Algernon Sidney and John Locke: How Two Men Answered Filmer and Armed a Revolution 52:55
  32. Brendan Kirby, FOX10 News Investigative Reporter, on Grand Jury Secrecy, Body Camera Records, and Alabama's Open Records Act 1:07:01
  33. The Levellers 59:52
  34. Brian Peltier, Libertarian for PA House District 60: Open Fields, Defend the Guard, and Ballot Access 43:42
  35. The Golden Metwand, Some Powers Were Never the Vote's to Give Away 41:23
  36. The Common Law Will Control 59:52
  37. English Monarchs Explained: Henry VIII to George III — Coke, Charles I, the Glorious Revolution & 1776 56:39
  38. Jamie Frost Remmey — Libertarian for U.S. House, PA-01 — On Ballot Access, Defend the Guard & War Powers 34:49
  39. Grotius, the Free Sea & the War Powers Debate: Hormuz, Bab al-Mandab & Article I 40:16
  40. The Dutch Republic Explained: William the Silent, Toleration, the VOC & Grotius 56:39
  41. John Thomas, LP Candidate for PA Lieutenant Governor — On Resistance, Romans 13 & School Choice 48:57
  42. Who Actually Writes the Laws You Live Under? (It Isn't Congress) 55:47
  43. The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and the Birth of Resistance Theory 49:27
  44. Censorship, the Printing Press, and Free Speech: Luther's Inheritance Today 40:35
  45. Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms (1521): Conscience, the Reformation, and the Birth of Resistance 45:13
  46. Flock, Palantir & the Caribbean Boat Strikes: Due Process in 2026 52:28
  47. Ellsberg, Snowden, Assange & the Espionage Act of 1917 1:02:55
  48. How Baghdad Saved Aristotle for the West | House of Wisdom 1:02:55
  49. Why the House Has 435 Members: The 1929 Cap Explained 41:49
  50. The Law Above the Law: Cicero, Natural Rights & 1776 45:28