A 20-year-old George Washington crashed a party he wasn't invited to — and walked out with a poem. Judy Hodgkiss on how Alexander Pope's Essay on Man carried Leibniz's ideas from a fugitive English lord into the Declaration of Independence.
Barbara Boyd cuts through the warmonger lie: Trump is pursuing peace while crushing Iran's leverage — and the real war is between Trump's American System and the dying London-centered petrodollar order that wants him dead.
A funeral pause answered with burning tankers — and a summit where Europe learned who runs the alliance now. Barbara and Susan on the empire's enforcement arm, the Golden Dome, and the midterm machine. Your questions, answered live.
What does it truly mean to be an American citizen? Mike Steger explores the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling, Justice Clarence Thomas' dissent, and the principles that built America.
What does it truly mean to be an American citizen?
In this episode, Mike Steger examines one of the most consequential constitutional debates in modern America through the lens of the Supreme Court's recent birthright citizenship decision. Drawing on the Pilgrims, the Puritans, the American Founding, the Civil War, and the writings of Justice Clarence Thomas, Mike argues that citizenship is rooted not in entitlement, but in duty, sacrifice, and the enduring principles of natural law.
From Plymouth Rock to Frederick Douglass, from John Winthrop to Abraham Lincoln, this discussion explores the spiritual and moral foundations that built the American Republic and why recovering those principles may determine America's future.
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00:00 Introduction
00:56 What Makes a True Citizen?
02:55 The Pilgrims and America's Foundation
05:46 John Winthrop and the American Mission
07:53 The Supreme Court's Definition of Citizenship
10:12 Clarence Thomas' Dissent
12:24 Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of Sacrifice
14:05 Conclusion
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