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The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A defense of 1776 challenges modern claims that America’s founding ideals are mythology. By revisiting Jefferson, Aristotle, virtue, and classical learning, it argues that the founding generation understands happiness as moral formation rather than selfish desire, urging readers to recover old books, civic wisdom, and historical memory today...
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