Oct 14, 2026 · 38 min · 10 segments
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We're still in the 250th anniversary of the Declaration, and I know it's kind of, you know, gone beyond our scope of things to talk about, but it shouldn't.
And so we should still be having these conversations about the meaning of independence, the meaning of the Declaration.
What does independence actually mean? What does the Declaration actually mean? Is it just simply the first line of the second paragraph, or is there something else to it? And so these conversations should be ongoing for the next several years, in fact.
The war doesn't officially end till 1783, and the founding generation is still talking about the meaning of independence long into the 19th century.
In fact, in so many ways, that's what the argument was up until 1860 and '61.
You could-- The West Coast Straussians will tell you that Abraham Lincoln was a full extension of what the American War for Independence meant because it was some type of philosophical revolution.
But as Gary Willis has pointed out, well, Lincoln revolutionized the revolution.
I find this piece at the City Journal to be interesting in that way because it's a review of two books, and I'm gonna talk about it.
The title is The True History of the American Revolution, which of course is what I led off with, uh, at the beginning of the show.
I mean, so, but he's, he's a very nice fellow, and, uh, I like his book on Andrew Jackson.
Both of these people teach at Hillsdale College, which of course is a Jaffa-ite West Coast Straussian institution now because of the president of the institution, Larry Arnn.
Now, a lot of people will tell you they'll go to hear Larry Arnn speak, and they're on board with everything he says until he gets to the South and John C. Calhoun and the Southern tradition, which he finds to be an alien tradition.
We're still in the 250th anniversary of the Declaration, and I know it's kind of, you know, gone beyond our scope of things to talk about, but it shouldn't.
And so we should still be having these conversations about the meaning of independence, the meaning of the Declaration.
What does independence actually mean? What does the Declaration actually mean? Is it just simply the first line of the second paragraph, or is there something else to it? And so these conversations should be ongoing for the next several years, in fact.
The war doesn't officially end till 1783, and the founding generation is still talking about the meaning of independence long into the 19th century.
In fact, in so many ways, that's what the argument was up until 1860 and '61.
You could-- The West Coast Straussians will tell you that Abraham Lincoln was a full extension of what the American War for Independence meant because it was some type of philosophical revolution.
But as Gary Willis has pointed out, well, Lincoln revolutionized the revolution.
I find this piece at the City Journal to be interesting in that way because it's a review of two books, and I'm gonna talk about it.
The title is The True History of the American Revolution, which of course is what I led off with, uh, at the beginning of the show.
I mean, so, but he's, he's a very nice fellow, and, uh, I like his book on Andrew Jackson.
Both of these people teach at Hillsdale College, which of course is a Jaffa-ite West Coast Straussian institution now because of the president of the institution, Larry Arnn.
Now, a lot of people will tell you they'll go to hear Larry Arnn speak, and they're on board with everything he says until he gets to the South and John C. Calhoun and the Southern tradition, which he finds to be an alien tradition.
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