This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about frontline

theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.

I'm Albert Moeller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

in Louisville, Kentucky.

Myron Magnet was the editor of City Journal from 1994 to 2006 and he is now the magazine's editor at large.

A former member of the Board of Editors of Fortune magazine, he was awarded a National

Humanities Medal by President George W Bush in 2008.

He has written about a wide variety of topics from American society and social policy

economics and corporate management to intellectual history, literature, architecture, and

the American founding.

His latest book is The Founders at Home, The Building of America, 1735 to 1817.

Myron Magnet, welcome to thinking in public.

Thank you so much. It is a pleasure to be with you.

Well, it certainly was a pleasure to read your book.

And you know, I can normally say that because I enjoy reading almost every book that crosses my desk.

But there was a particular pleasure in reading your book because as you cover the American

founding, you're covering the historical epic that perhaps has had greatest attention from American historians,

and yet you found a way to tell the story in a completely new way.

Thank you so much. You liked my historical house's part.

I take it.

Well, and I will tell you one reason why I get to live in one of those homes, or at least a replica of one of those

homes.

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