Thank you all for joining us for another special edition

of the American Mind Podcast.

I'm going to talk today with Matt Spalding and Charles

Kessler about the 1776 Commission and its report, which,

as you'll hear on this podcast, was summarily

next by the Biden administration on the first possible day

that they could.

We talk about the report, about its roots in American principles

and American justice, the challenge of identity politics,

populism and its relation to America,

and all sorts of wide-ranging conversation

about this important work, including the continuing work

that the Commission is going to do,

even though it's not officially together anymore

under the leadership of Matt Spalding

from his perch in Washington, D.C.,

where he runs Hillsdale College's Kirby Center

for the Constitutional Studies and Citizenship.

Just the formal titles for everybody, Matt Spalding

is the Kirby Professor in Constitutional Government

at Hillsdale College, and he's the Dean of the Van Andell

Graduate School of Government at their Washington, D.C.

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