Historian Jon Meacham (Extended)

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham argues that the authors of the Constitution anticipated that authoritarian leaders would one day seek to corrupt the principles on which this country was founded.

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