Avoiding Certainty

What type of person dominates United States history? Is it the powerful man who uses violence like Donald Trump and Stephen Miller or the man who uses debate and nonviolence like MLK? Today's podcast analyzes the tension created by the strong man John Wayne vs. the man of books in Jimmy Stewart in …

John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago argues that the two most important principles in the Declaration of Independence are liberalism and nationalism. In this tug-of-war, Mearsheimer argues that "nationalism wins every time.":

Asa/Forrest Carter was an unreconstructed Southerner and KKK leader who wrote George Wallace's signature line "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever," who also authored the "Outlaw Josey Wales."

Should the United States government set goals that every American should have a home. a job, and an education? Well, a few months before D-Day in 1944, President FDR promoted these very ideas in his Second Bill of Rights speech.