Robert Reilly's Defense of America's Founding
The Daily Signal Podcast
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🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It’s not just statues and American history that are under attack. The most essential ideas from America’s founding are under siege and on trial.
Robert R. Reilly, the director of the Westminster Institute and widely published author, joined “The Right Side of History” podcast to discuss his new book “America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding.”
Reilly discusses the deeper origins of the American Revolution—rooted in Western thought, philosophy, and religion—and explains why America’s current success and survival depends on embracing those ideas rather than abandoning them.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, August 11th. I'm Virginia |
| 0:09.6 | Owen and I'm Kate Trinko. Today we're going to share an interview from our daily signal |
| 0:15.0 | colleagues, Fred Lucas and Jarrett Steppman, who hosts the Right Side of History, a great |
| 0:20.4 | podcast that you should subscribe to. Fred and Jarrett interview Robert Riley, |
| 0:25.4 | author of America on Trial, a defense of the founding. We are now one week into our daily |
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| 0:50.9 | news Now under our top news. In the early morning hours Monday, Chicago faced looting. According to Fox News, 13 police officers were |
| 1:06.0 | hurt and over a hundred people have been arrested. Here's Chicago Mayor |
| 1:10.9 | Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat at a press conference Monday via Fox Business. |
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