Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Will future generations judge us the way we judge the Founders?
Helena Rosenblatt warns that judging the Founders by today's values is its own kind of vanity, and that demoting them now is dangerous when the Constitution may be the only thing holding liberal democracy up. Osita Nwanevu treats that as the point: whoever comes after us will know more, and should be free to remake what we leave them.
250 years in, whose judgment should we trust?
Watch the full debate on all Open to Debate platforms.
Will future generations judge us the way we judge the Founders?
Helena Rosenblatt warns that judging the Founders by today's values is its own kind of vanity, and that demoting them now is dangerous when the Constitution may be the only thing holding liberal democracy up. Osita Nwanevu treats that as the point: whoever comes after us will know more, and should be free to remake what we leave them.
250 years in, whose judgment should we trust?
Watch the full debate on all Open to Debate platforms.
