He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1995 at the University of Pisa. He was born in Chicago and educated in Italy and the United States, he joined the faculty of the University of Milan in 1998. Professor Bassani's main area of research is American political thought from the American Revolution to the Civil War.
While some of his work is available only in Italian, his books: Liberty, State, and Union: The Political Theory of Thomas Jefferson (2010) and Chaining down Leviathan. The American Dream of Self-Government (2021) are available in English here in the US.
Professor Bassani has also co-authored two textbooks on the history of political theory and has written more than eighty book-chapters and articles for scholarly journals.
Marco Bassani is one of the most well-rounded, distinguished, & respected Jeffersonian scholars in the world. But, last year the "neo-Bolsheviks" attempted to cancel him because they didn't like "a joke" he re-posted about Kamala Harris on his personal social media page. For this audacious crime against humanity... he was ridiculously found guilty of sharing “sexist and highly offensive content, not only toward the directly interested party but toward the entire female gender.” As punishment, his university teaching, and salary were suspended for one month. Oh those Leftist First Amendment/Free Speech supporting heroes!
Professor Bassani discusses his travails as he battles back against Leftist oppression!
Tonight we delve into the professor's tremendous first book as John From Conn joins in. Very soon the Professor will return to discuss his second book and we know that will be just as enthralling!
Thomas Jefferson founded the Republican party and it is his principles that Ronald Reagan promoted.
Is there (and has there been for a very long time) a distinct effort by the Left-wing controlled academia to cover up the three great areas of Jeffersonian political philosophy? (his free enterprise economic beliefs, his Lockian inspired natural individual-rights roots, & his decentralized federalism.) And just why is this? All of those immutable truths (including the natural right to life, liberty, property, & self-defense) are as applicable today as they were back then!
The famous Marxian "Jefferson agrarian economic myth" is easily dispelled and Jefferson's true "free enterprise economic genius" is brought to shining light!
Why is a Jeffersonian cornerstone, the Kentucky resolutions (written by TJ in 1798), skimmed over by almost every other prominent Jefferson historian since the War to Prevent Southern Independence?
The consensus here is that only by returning to that very wise & enlightened structure can we stop out of control overreaching centralized government, elective despotism, & mobocracy!
"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to it's true principles." --TJ
This is almost an hour of "TRP food for the brain" that you simply will not hear anywhere else!
