Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Asked what the Founding Fathers would make of the political moment in America in 2025, the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, that, in drafting the Constitution, they were “reverse engineering against a tyrant … the balance of powers, the three-legislative stuff. They’re always worried about somebody.”
Read more from Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt about how the PBS series “The American Revolution,” which tells the nation’s founding story, was made: https://theatln.tc/vyC1zmUD
Asked what the Founding Fathers would make of the political moment in America in 2025, the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, that, in drafting the Constitution, they were “reverse engineering against a tyrant … the balance of powers, the three-legislative stuff. They’re always worried about somebody.”
Read more from Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt about how the PBS series “The American Revolution,” which tells the nation’s founding story, was made: https://theatln.tc/vyC1zmUD
