How to Read Like a Founding Father
The reading habits that shaped the American Revolution.
The American Founding Fathers did not stumble into liberty by sheer instinct. To understand their world, we must immerse ourselves in their libraries filled with Roman history, biblical texts, Locke, Cato’s Letters, Montesquieu, and Plutarch. This episode explores the reading habits that shaped the American Revolution and asks what it would mean today to recover that tradition.