What The Founders Learned from the Greeks & Romans and Why It Matters Today The Politics Guys

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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