From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

And I, you know, I suggested a couple of times in the book that there's something perverse in the human soul,

especially with activists, intellectuals of a certain type, that enjoy self-hatred.

This is your host, Scott Bertram.

Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network.

That was Daniel J. Mahoney, Professor Emeritus at Assumption University and author of the new book,

The Persistence of the Ideological Lie.

We'll talk in depth with Daniel about that new book a little bit later on in today's

program.

First, we're joined by Dr. Kevin Porteus.

He is professor of politics and director of American studies at Hillsdale College.

Dr. Porteus, thanks for joining us.

Thank you.

Talking about a piece you recently wrote for the American Mind at Americanmind.

Birthright Citizenship and the American Founders.

This topic of birthright citizenship, where do we first find the expressions of birthright citizenship

in the Anglo-American tradition.

I think that this very much emerges, at least in a way that's relevant for our purposes,

out of the English common law. And the idea was that you owed an obligation to the sovereign

of the country in which you were born for the protection that

he provided you when you could not protect yourself. But the issue was that when he was providing

the protection you cannot provide for yourself, you as a child, obviously, were in no position to repay that debt.

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