# James Wilson

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The Quiet Purge: How Blue Cities Are Replacing Real Cops

NYPD Captain James Wilson criticized Mayor Zohran Mamdani and was promptly reassigned to a dead-end Communications Division role that kills his promotion prospects. Zeek Arkham breaks down the pattern: departments park outspoken officers under “needs of the department” language until their careers …

Risky Business #857 -- AI FUD intensifies

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Alex Stamos to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including: Everyone’s still panicking about “misbehaving” AI models that are pretty much just doing what they’re being told to do Americans are g…

Episode 42, Brian talks to election reform disruptor, Tom Joseph about his tech-driven, outside-the-system approach to election reform.

Tom Joseph of the America's Main Street Party and Wilson's Fountain, explains how he's using simple tech to do and end-run around the voting system to nominate candidates for office according to founding father, James Wilson's ideas for free and equal elections. https://www.wilsonsfountain.ushttps:…

The Grand Convention - A Rising Sun

September 17th, 1787. The parchment is on the table, and 81-year-old Benjamin Franklin has written out the last great speech of the summer — read aloud by James Wilson because the doctor can barely stand: “the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment... I consent, Sir, to this Const…

The Forgotten Prophet of the American Founding

“a twenty-first century man trapped in the eighteenth century” James Wilson put “We the People” in the Constitution, fought against the Electoral College and equal state votes in the Senate, and argued for popular sovereignty when most of his colleagues wanted nothing of the kind. He died in 1798 a…

Risky Business #858 -- The $6.3b laptop

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host Ciaran Martin, former CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including: The $6.3 billion dollar Binance hack turned out to be pretty clunky, but…

Episode 1510: Think Tank: Europe must choose which chemical value chains to save

Increasing pressure caused by high energy costs and rising exports from China will force Europe into difficult decisions over which strategic chemical value chains to save. - Chinese ethylene capacity forecast to rise from 60 million tonnes/year in 2025 to 81m tonnes/year by 2030- Chinese producers…

School Improvement - Rethinking how we lead the middle: The Twilight Show with Louise Marie

Louise Marie meets with James Wilson to discuss how school improvement starts with the conditions senior leaders create for middle leaders to thrive. Together, they explore clarity, trust, coaching, accountability, psychological safety, and why rethinking how we lead the middle may be the key to su…

Jesse Wegman | The Lost Founder

The Author Events Series presents Jesse Wegman | The Lost Founder In Conversation with Patrick Spero, Ph.D New York Times journalist Jesse Wegman tells the story of James Wilson, a Founding Father whose bold vision shaped American democracy but whose legacy was lost to scandal. As a young law…

The Loyal Opposition: The Anti-Federalists and the Ratification of the Constitution

The Loyal Opposition: The Anti-Federalists and the Ratification of the Constitution Richmond, June 1788. Patrick Henry asks who authorized the men at Philadelphia to write "We, the people" instead of "We, the states" — and warns the convention to "guard with jealous attention the public liberty." …