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Named for Jack and Mary Lois Wheatley, the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University enhances the reputation and scholarship of BYU by seeking creative and powerful ideas which lead toward practical and constructive solutions to real societal issues. The Institute broadly disseminates those motivating ideas and policy recommendations to the wider world and is guided in all its work by endurin
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04/07/2026
There was standing room only in the Wheatley office as Tyson Reeder, Wheatley Affiliated Scholar and assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University, presented on his award-winning book, "Serpent in Eden: Foreign Meddling and Partisan Politics in James Madison’s America”.
Reeder’s extensive archival research in Europe and America shows how the foreign meddling in the newly independent United States motivated the Founders to abandon the Articles of Confederation in favor of a more cohesive central government, and then, ironically, how that same king of foreign interference through shadow diplomacy and misinformation, bled into the hyper-partisanship of the early American republic.
Reeder connected his historical analysis with the present day, concluding with the importance of having faith over fear and his confidence in the strength of the American constitution. Reeder’s remarks are now available at www.wheatley.byu.edu
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