Such passion, such flare, the colors bizarre yet evocative, the shapes bold, yet somehow fluid.

It's a shame the tray table must now be stowed and the coloring book back in mom's bag.

Everyone should feel free to express themselves, even the littlest flyers.

That's why at Virgin Atlantic, we give our kids packs on every flight from the UK.

Virgin Atlantic, see the world differently. This is an

on the world with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

The Founders and Equal Opportunity.

It is the subject of a new book that takes us from the founding of the United States of America

to right now, by David Davenport and the late Gordon Lloyd.

Equality of opportunity turns out to be a debating point for several hundred years, a

complete revelation to me.

So we'll go to two independent observers of the New Republic.

This would be a man named Cravacour, who died in 1813, and a man named Tocville, who died in 1859.

Father and son, think of them that way.

The Cravacour died just about the same time.

Tocville was born. And the quote from

de Tocville is vivid, equality of conditions. The quote from de Cravacour who worked in America as a farmer before observing this new republic

is more nuance from involuntary idleness rewarded by ample subsistence. In other words, the sweat of your

brow makes you free. David Davenport is here to help us understand what the

founders believed was their

achievement, what the conditions were around them in the 18th century that they

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