The question that I want to ask today is a big one.

Is America still possible?

That is, can we still have this country

the way the founders intended it?

So, today's episode, I wanted to share with you some of the stuff that I talked about

with the Publius Fellows at the Claremont Institute where I work.

Every summer we do these fellowships. It's one of the best and most important things I think

that Claremont does. We have the Publius Fellowship which is for sort of college age students

and people just out of college and then we have the Lincoln Fellowship which is for people

who are already sort of established in their careers and both of them are, we have other fellowships

by the way, but those are the two kind of, in my view, the really core ones. And both of them are

devoted to giving people a firm foundation in what Claremont sees as the essence of the American

idea and equipping them to go forth into the world, you know, influencing people holding

political office perhaps or writing or whatever it is that they go on to do with that

fire in their hearts with that sense of what America truly is. And so, I was really honored to go

and talk to the Publius Fellows this time around because first of all, they're incredible students.

They are going to save their public, I hope. And second of all, you know, it's just really,

I talk so much about education as shaping of the soul, right? It's just the most important thing,

I think, that any conservative or any conservative organization can do right now is reach young people

and equip them to go forth into this very, very crazy world that we are currently living in. And so,

that's by the way, when people ask like, what can I do? You know, if you are in a position where you

have a gift to coach or educate kids to take kids under your wing, whether it's your own children

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