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An interview with Thomas Pangle on the American Founding.

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Transcript: johnathanbi.com/p/transcript-for-interview-with-thomas-pangle-on-the-american-founding

Companion interviews:
What All Great Men Want (But Won’t Admit To) | UT Philosopher Thomas Pangle: youtu.be/_ozwvr2Pdls

Timestamps:
00:00 0. Introduction
00:34 1. Commerce and the Republic 
22:26 2. Human Nature and the Life of the Mind 
55:27 3. Religion and the Founding 
01:07:04 4. America's Political Innovations 
01:23:45 5. Has America Betrayed Its Founding Principles? 
01:31:54 6. The Great Thinkers that Influenced America