America at 250: What Did the Founders Get Right?
7/6/202617 min
Michael Shermer makes the case that the U.S. Founding Fathers were not only steeped in Enlightenment values on which the Declaration of Independence was based, but they were also scientists searching to discover moral truths and values on which to base a rational society, which they succeeded in doing in this document along with the Constitution.
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Michael Shermer· Host1:00
Hey everybody, it's Michael Shermer. Time for another episode of The Michael Shermer Show. This, another Shermer Says solo commentary. This on the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the United States of America. This is a piece I wrote for The Boston Globe, which they are publishing on July fourth and fifth. It is a special, um, issue of their, uh, newspaper. And, uh, so they've given me permission to go ahead and, uh, make this a solo commentary.