America's Principles vs. Culture

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]I did a lot of research on the founding imagination. I studied their rhymes, their songs, their fables, you know, their their heroes actually is another part of the moral imagination we forget is like who are your great men? Like who are your heroes? Who do you name your children after?

[00:00:16]Um and and I wanted to represent a lot of these images uh and this book is a kind of answer as to how you might weave these things to to together much more fruitfully and less of a fight and more of a handshake to win more people over to the cause.

[00:00:33]And so the the the the nursery rhymes, the fables, the short stories, the primary sources from both the founding and the long settlement of the country are all kind of woven like little cantos to sort of connect and explain the Declaration of Independence's various statements of principle and ideas and practice and tyranny.