About this episode

This episode explores the reading habits that shaped the American Revolution and the significance of recovering that tradition today.

The American Founding Fathers did not stumble into liberty by sheer instinct. To understand their world, we must immerse ourselves in their libraries filled with Roman history, biblical texts, Locke, Cato’s Letters , Montesquieu, and Plutarch. This episode explores the reading habits that shaped the American Revolution and asks what it would mean today to recover that tradition. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Libertarianism.org

Topics covered

• American Revolution
• reading habits
• historical context
• liberty
• Founding Fathers

Keywords

• Founding Fathers
• liberty
• reading habits
• American Revolution
• historical texts

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Roman history, biblical texts, Locke, Cato’s Letters, Montesquieu, Plutarch

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