About this episode

Dr. Matt Mehan discusses the challenges of reclaiming healthy American citizenship amidst public chaos and institutional corruption.

Curtailing public chaos and institutional corruption are vital objectives to reclaiming a healthy American citizenship. But what can ordinary people do to rein in corrupt elites? And why have elected officials failed to push back for generations? Dr. Matt Mehan, associate dean of Hillsdale College's Graduate School of Government, joins Oren and Chris to make sense of what went wrong. They discuss how a fixation on legal rights has crowded out a public commitment to the responsibilities and d...

People in this episode

Hosts: Oren, Chris

Guest: Dr. Matt Mehan

Topics covered

• American citizenship
• public chaos
• institutional corruption
• corrupt elites
• elected officials
• legal rights
• public responsibilities

Keywords

• American citizenship
• public chaos
• institutional corruption
• corrupt elites
• elected officials
• legal rights
• responsibilities

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Organizations: Hillsdale College

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