John Adams with Danielle Allen

John Adams is often remembered as a stubborn, deeply insecure, and intensely polarizing figure—yet his fierce loyalty to the rule of law and his vision for American constitutionalism were indispensable to the founding of the republic.

Colleen sits down with acclaimed Harvard University political theorist Dr. Danielle Allen to examine John Adams' true legacy: his brilliant early political writings, his essential partnership with Abigail Adams, his fractured relationship with Thomas Jefferson, and his controversial decision to sign the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.