What The Founders Learned from the Greeks & Romans and Why It Matters Today

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

News, Politics

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Mike talks with Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas Ricks about his latest book First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks & Romans and How That Shaped Our Country. Topics covered in their discussion include: how the 2016 election led Ricks back to ancient Greece & Rome why we should care about what a small number of Dead White Males thought the three big things the Founders were wrong about the influences of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison what the Founders would have thought about modern campaign finance why modern Americans shouldn’t panic the importance of waking up Congress whether we can (or should) return to the vision of the Founders Founders Online Thomas Ricks on Twitter The Politics Guys on Facebook | Twitter Mike’s Other Podcast - Politics Makes Me Sick Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the podcast, go to patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.7	Van Role, Lug the government, love the government, love the government, love the government, welcome to the politics, guys, a place for a bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
1:21.5	I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
1:32.3	My guest today is Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas Ricks, and I've been a fan of his print journalism and his books, actually, for a number of years now.
1:40.3	And so I'm fairly, really pleased to have the opportunity to talk with him today about his most recent book, First Principles,
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