Episode 101: Born on the 4th of The Lie!
Family, friends, and listeners:
We gather virtually at a momentous historical threshold. The United States is engulfed in the pageantry, corporate sponsorships, and national choreography of its Semiquincentennial—the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration
of Independence. Across the landscape, museum exhibitions are being mounted, monument plaques polished, and civic speeches drafted.
We are being summoned, collectively, to step into a grand civic liturgy: to
look back upon 1776 with an unclouded eye of pride, to venerate the so-called “Founding Fathers,” and to reaffirm a…
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