Thomas Jefferson: Author of America — Why liberty required expansion
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Author: Christopher Hitchens
This episode explores Thomas Jefferson: Author of America by Christopher Hitchens as a systems-level analysis of how the early American republic influenced behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why this system persisted — and how slavery, agrarian economics, constitutional conflict, and territorial expansion connected to larger political and imperial structures.
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