James Madison is best remembered as the father of the American Constitution, but he is also known as a man of many contradictions. He argued both for and against the importance of a strong federal government and denounced the role of political parties in the “Federalist Papers” just a few years before helping establish the Democratic-Republican Party in the 1790s.

In “James Madison: America’s First Politician” (Basic Books, 2021), AEI’s Jay Cost argues that studying Madison’s work as a professional politician is key to reconciling the inconsistencies in his thought. Please join AEI for a conversation between Dr. Cost and AEI’s Yuval Levin on how Madison developed a distinctly American idiom of political action and what this can illuminate about forging compromise in a diverse republic today.

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