Welcome into today's podcast.

Excited to be with you and excited to talk Declaration of Independence Center,

Steven Scultetty, Rankinirling here with me today on the

Ole Miss campus. You would hear about it for a while on our network of podcast, students hearing

about it because they're participating, they're excited about it. So welcome to you guys. Appreciate

the time to talk about that, talk about the mission, talk about history a little bit, and give a little better idea of exactly what's going on.

So have a good day.

All right. Well, Chase, first, thanks so much for having us on.

It's great to meet you in person and have this conversation with you.

I think the big thing is we just want people to know that there is this great opportunity for students, faculty,

and members of the Mississippi community here at Ole Miss to study the great tradition of American

liberty and to wrestle with what it means to be free and live in a free country. And I know when I

took over as director of the center...

This Stephen, by the way, talking.

Yeah, so right.

You know, I was under the impression that a lot of students were spending a lot of their time thinking about justice.

A lot of students were thinking about the nature of rights.

A lot of students were thinking about all sorts of things like that. But what they weren't thinking about the nature of rights. A lot of students were thinking about all sorts of things

like that, but what they weren't thinking about was what it means to be free and what it means

to live in a country based in liberty. And so when I took over the Declaration Center, I just made

it sort of my singular goal to try to create these opportunities for students.

And I said, like faculty and community members, to have time to really think about these subjects

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