In this presentation, renowned historian Anton Chaitkin introduces a new analysis to American history by recognizing the top down factor of oligarchical vs republican paradigms that have situated humanity in two diametrically opposing paradigms throughout all human history. This fruitful exercise allowed Anton to redefine the higher motives and purpose of the American revolution and the larger battle to establish a science of political economy on this earth. The lecture itself was delivered to showcase the first volume of Anton’s new two volume series “Who We Are- America’s Fight For Universal Progress” with this first part taking us through the life and work of Benjamin Franklin during the decades prior to the revolution all the way to Franklin’s grandson Alexander Dallas Bache- a leading scientist who continued his grandfather’s mission a century later.
December 20, 2020: Teddy Roosevelt’s Last Mad Crusade Lecturer: Martin Sieff (author of Cycles of Change)
In this lecture, renowned journalist and historian Martin Sieff zeroes in on a “pregnant moment” in world history which saw the 1901 murder of a great president (William McKinley) and the rise of Teddy Roosevelt into high office. This was a moment of change that saw a young republic pulled in two opposing directions as on the one hand, a defender of sovereignty, liberty and international cooperation in opposition to systems of empire and on the other hand. a participant in empire and colonialism under a perverse understanding of “manifest destiny”. One paradigm was defended by William McKinley, the other was advanced by McKinley’s delusion vice president- Theodore Roosevelt.
January 3, 2021: Hamiltonian Economics and the Persistence of American Slavery Lecturer: Nancy Spannaus (author of Hamilton vs Wall Street)
January 10, 2021: The Need for A Hamiltonian Policy to Develop African Nations Lecturer: Lawrence Freeman (Editor-in-Chief of Africa and the World)
January 17, 2021: The Genius of Paul Lawrence Dunbar Lecturer: Madeleine Therrien
