America at 250: What Did the Founders Get Right?
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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? 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 give me permission to go ahead and uh make this a solo commentary. So I've titled this The Science Of the declaration. Of independence. On our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
A different look. At America's Founding document. Yeah, so I'm taking a slightly different approach here from a historian of science perspective. It is altogether proper for so many commentators on this two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the nation's founding to
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