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Independence Day Special: Thomas Jefferson and the Founding

Independence Day Special: Thomas Jefferson and the Founding

Update: 2025-07-04
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Guests: Matthew Spalding & Robert R. Riley

We revisit two previously aired interviews for this special Independence Day episode. Host Scot Bertram talks with Matthew Spalding, vice president of Washington Operations and dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale in D.C., about Thomas Jefferson's influence on the Declaration of Independence. And Robert R. Reilly, director of the Westminster Institute, gives a defense of the intellectual foundations of the American Founding as laid out in his book America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding.

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Independence Day Special: Thomas Jefferson and the Founding

Independence Day Special: Thomas Jefferson and the Founding

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