Welcome to the New Books Network.

Welcome to 2026. This is Season 5 of Madison's Notes, the official podcast of the James

Madison program of American ideals and institutions at Princeton University. I'm your host,

Ryan Schenkel, the new communications coordinator at JMP. In the prior seasons, my predecessor's Nina Scalia, Anika Nordquist and Laura Laurent,

built up a great podcast crossing many subjects, from political philosophy and American history

to the great books and current day debates, as well as across multiple genres, from newly

published authors

to local Princeton scoops and human interest stories. All of that has been possible thanks to you,

the many loyal listeners and subscribers over the past few years. I might also say us, for as a long-time

listener and now first-time host, I'm grateful to be able to produce and steer something

I have followed

since its inception. To introduce myself, I'm a writer and editor from Detroit, and a proud alum of both

the University of Michigan and St. John's College. And as I'm working here for Princeton,

I can claim to have been a Tigers fan since I was a kid, although that no longer means exclusively

the Detroit baseball team.

As our first season five episode, we have with us, Dr. Kevin DeYoung.

Dr. DeYoung is a Presbyterian pastor in Matthews, North Carolina, a popular author of over

30 books, a reformed theologian and historian, who earned his Ph.D. at the University

of Leicester, and an associate professor of systematic theology, had reformed theologian and historian, who earned his PhD at the University of Leicester,

and an associate professor of systematic theology had reformed theological seminary, also in North

Carolina. He is here with us today to talk about the life of the Scottish minister, once president

of Princeton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and all-around American founding father,

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