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Preview: Juliana Geran Pilon discusses how Founding Fathers viewed the Hebrew nation as an ideal for America, rooted in a divine creator. She warns that moral relativism and secularism now assault this core foundation.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Preview: Juliana Geran Pilon discusses how Founding Fathers viewed the Hebrew nation as an ideal for America, rooted in a divine creator. She warns that moral relativism and secularism now assault this core foundation.

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This is CBSI and the world. I'm John Batchelor. The Hebrew nation in the 18th century.

0:37.4

The United States ambition to be a nation in the 18th century. Large topics. And I welcome Juliana Geran Pallon, senior fellow at the Alexander Hamilton

0:41.3

Institute for the Study of Western Civilization.

0:44.3

Her new book, An Idea Betrayed, Jews, Liberalism, and the American Lab, just published,

0:50.3

writing for the Civitas Outlook at Civitas Institute, an observation of the founding fathers

0:55.5

and how they saw the Hebrew Nation, the Hebrew Bible, the city on a hill, the idea that Israel, as we

1:04.5

understand it today, was beyond imagining, but the Hebrew nation was not, and that America

1:10.0

followed the Hebrew nation in being founded

1:12.6

by an idea, not conquest, an idea, as the Hebrew nation anticipated in the 18th century, an idea.

1:22.9

Juliana, congratulations, a very good evening to you.

1:25.6

You put together the Hebrew Bible and quotes from the founding fathers.

1:32.1

I first rushed to say I was amazed at how they all got in on this with their magical metaphors,

1:38.8

especially their ghostwriters.

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