Revised and Updated Paperback Edition Arrives November 22
November 22 marks an anniversary worth remembering. On that day in 1787, James Madison published Federalist No. 10. His essay offered one of the most enduring arguments for the American experiment: that a large republic, rich in factions and opinions, could protect liberty better than a small one ruled by passion or majority impulse.
Madison wrote in an age of division and distrust. He saw that freedom and faction were twins—born together, bound together, and always at risk of consuming one another. His solution was not purity or unanimity but design. A system that extended the sphere. A framework that turned conflict into balance. In short, the art of the compromise.
That date—November 22—is not only a milestone in American political thought. It is now the release date for the Revised and Updated Paperback Edition of The Art of the Compromise.
The new edition refines the arguments of the hardcover, expands the historical research, and integrates lessons from this summer’s Donuts for Democracy lecture series. The revisions deepen the discussion of how a republic manages disagreement without surrendering its soul.
The paperback will be available beginning November 22 through Amazon and other major booksellers.
Madison warned that liberty is most threatened not by dissent but by the loss of our capacity to deliberate. His words still ring true. The republic survives not by silencing opposition but by learning to govern through difference.
That is the spirit of this new edition—and the reason for its release on November 22.
Compromise is never easy and it ain’t for the weak. Stay strong.
