Book (excerpts)/Papers
· Publius Decius Mus – The Flight 93 Election. The Claremont Institute, Sept. 5, 2016 http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/
· Richard Hofstadter – The Paranoid Style in American Politics. Harvard University Press, 1965, 3-40
· Plato – Apology http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html
· Plato – The Republic, Book VIII http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.9.viii.html
· Harvey Mansfield – Machiavelli’s Enterprise. The New Criterion, October 2013 https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2013/10/machiavellias-enterprise
· Thomas Hobbes – De Cive (excerpts) http://www.unilibrary.com/ebooks/Hobbes,%20Thomas%20-%20De%20Cive.pdf
· Mark D. Brewer – Populism in American Politics. De Gruyter, The Forum 2016; 14(3): 249-264 https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/for.2016.14.issue-3/for-2016-0021/for-2016-0021.pdf
· Robert R. Barr – Populists, Outsiders and Anti-Establishment Politics. Party Politics 2009, vol. 15, 29-48
· Benjamin Moffit, Simon Tormey. Rethinking Populism: Politics, Mediatisation and Political Style. Political Studies: 2014 vol. 62, 381-397
· Bart Bonikowski – Three Lessons of Contemporary Populism in Europe and the United States. The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Fall/Winter 2016, vol. XXIII, Issue I, 9-24 https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/bonikowski/files/bonikowski_-_three_lessons_of_contemporary_populism_in_the_united_states_and_europe.pdf
· Isaiah Berlin – To Define Populism, The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library (transcript of an LSE Conference, London, 1967), 1-19 http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/bibliography/bib111bLSE.pdf
· William F. Buckley Jr. – On Experiencing Gore Vidal: Can there be any justification in calling a man a queer before ten million people on television? Esquire, August 1969, 108-129 https://www.scribd.com/doc/273145095/On-Experiencing-Gore-Vidal
Speeches (transcripts). Videos of the speeches will be analyzed in class.
· Donald J. Trump’s 2016 RNC Acceptance Speech https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/DJT_Acceptance_Speech.pdf
· Donald J. Trump’s 2017 Inaugural Address https://www.whitehouse.gov/inaugural-address
· Ronald W. Reagan’s 1964 A Time for Choosing TV Address http://cdn.constitutionreader.com/files/pdf/constitution/ch123.pdf
· Barry M. Goldwater’s 1964 RNC Acceptance Speech http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/may98/goldwaterspeech.htm
· Bernie Sanders’s speech on the state of the political revolution at the People’s Summit 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0KiVubDr
Films/Videos
· Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal. (2015) Documentary film by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville.
· Video interviews with Harvey Mansfield and Mark Blitz
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