What The Founders Learned from the Greeks & Romans and Why It Matters Today
Mike talks with Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas Ricks about his latest book First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks & Romans and How That Shaped Our Country.
Topics covered in their discussion include:
- how the 2016 election led Ricks back to ancient Greece & Rome
- why we should care about what a small number of Dead White Males thought
- the three big things the Founders were wrong about
- the influences of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison
- what the Founders would have thought about modern campaign finance
- why modern Americans shouldn’t panic
- the importance of waking up Congress
- whether we can (or should) return to the vision of the Founders
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