Episode 13: Across Europe This Wall Will Fall
The late 1980s saw a new kind of threat to liberty — one that infected sovereign nations far and wide. In one of the most famous speeches delivered by...
Give Me Liberty: The Making of American Exceptionalism
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Historian Richard Brookhiser joins constitutional scholar Luke Thompson to examine thirteen historical documents and recount their role in the development of liberty.
Episode 13: Across Europe This Wall Will Fall
The late 1980s saw a new kind of threat to liberty — one that infected sovereign nations far and wide. In one of the most famous speeches delivered by...
Episode 12: The Great Arsenal of Democracy
Around the time of World War II, the United States once again faced the question of what it means to be a force of power on the world stage and preser...
Episode 12: The Great Arsenal of Democracy
Around the time of World War II, the United States once again faced the question of what it means to be a force of power on the world stage and preser...
Episode 11: The Practical Meaning of Economic Equality
Famously proclaiming that we “shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold,” William Jennings Bryan delivered a plea for the coinage of silver, which ...
Episode 11: The Practical Meaning of Economic Equality
Famously proclaiming that we “shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold,” William Jennings Bryan delivered a plea for the coinage of silver, which ...
Episode 10: The Mother of Exiles
A famous sonnet written to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty, Rick and Luke discuss how “The New Colossus” set ...
Episode 10: The Mother of Exiles
A famous sonnet written to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty, Rick and Luke discuss how “The New Colossus” set ...
Episode 9: Abraham Lincoln Goes Back to Basics
As Abraham Lincoln said in his famous Gettysburg Address, the United States of America was conceived in liberty. By the time the Civil War broke out, ...
Episode 9: Abraham Lincoln Goes Back to Basics
As Abraham Lincoln said in his famous Gettysburg Address, the United States of America was conceived in liberty. By the time the Civil War broke out, ...