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  1. George Townsend Inactive
    George Townsend
    @GeorgeTownsend

    This was very interesting. I don’t agree with much of it. But the lecture was very thoughtful. 

    I didn’t know First Things did a Podcast. It is good that Ricochet to put it on.

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  2. Israel P. Inactive
    Israel P.
    @IsraelP

    I wish I had heard this in high school, back when we learned about Bryan and Darrow and read Moby Dick. I’d like to think it would have made an impression.

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  3. Texmoor Coolidge
    Texmoor
    @Texmoor

    Very interesting presentation. I fall more on the neocon perspective (mix of both Jacksonian/Progressive views which he mentions in the Q&A), though I definitely identify more with Jackson. I think William Jennings Bryan was a crackpot though ;)

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  4. Lois Lane Coolidge
    Lois Lane
    @LoisLane

    I really enjoyed this podcast.  I’m currently reading a monograph by Kevin Kruse that looks at the merging of religion and politics in the 1930s through the 1950s in part to combat FDR.  His thesis falls short for me because I knew about these earlier mergings of theology with policy–the mixing was not created in the 1930s–but this was well articulated and still taught me quite a bit.  Interesting.  

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  5. FredGoodhue Coolidge
    FredGoodhue
    @FredGoodhue

    Experts are often wrong, but with “Darwinism”, the experts are right.

     

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