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Land of Hope and Dreams

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This week on America's Most Trusted Podcast®, we kick off with some home grown commentary about the ongoing Pelosi-Trump drama. Then, the Las Vegas Review-Journal's White House correspondent extraordinaire Deb Saunders joins for an extended and more detailed chat on the same topic. Later, Dr. Bill McClay stops by to discuss his new book, Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story which is all about the way history textbooks weirdly seem to only promote one point of view (guess which one). We close with a bit of talk about why Florida may be America's greatest state and the what the hosts are doing for the three day weekend.

Music from this week's show: Land of Hope and Dreams by Bruce Springsteen

Hosts:
James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long
Guests:
DSDebra SaundersWMWilfred McClay

Discussion (56)

  • Henry Castaigne@HenryCastaigne

    I'm with James Lileks all the way. Human history is a unpleasant story of man against man and an overbearing government that started wars with other overbearing governments. Also, everyone had slaves and 90 percent of people barely had enough to eat and racism and sexism were endemic.

    I remember speaking to a fairly successful boss who mentioned, "Well racism had to come before slavery for slavery to exist right?" I (perhaps overeagerly) explained that slavery had existed before humans knew how to right and that racism is a pretty normal attitude for all of humanity. Without that prerequisite knowledge, how can anyone accurately judge America. Dr. Bill McClay is absolutely right that so many people today don't know anything. I think the Marxist education in our schools might be the reason that our I.Q. scores are going down.

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