As America approaches its 250th anniversary (the Semiquincentennial), we return to the Declaration of Independence and its most debated phrase: “all men are created equal.” Why created equal? Why not merely born equal? In this episode, Dan McCarthy argues that the Declaration’s logic depends on a Creator: rights are not inventions of the state or products of social consensus, but endowments grounded in God and that foundation produces a radically different view of liberty, property, justice,...
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As America approaches its 250th anniversary (the Semiquincentennial), we return to the Declaration of Independence and its most debated phrase: “all men are created equal.” Why created equal? Why not merely born equal? In this episode, Dan McCarthy argues that the Declaration’s logic depends on a Creator: rights are not inventions of the state or products of social consensus, but endowments grounded in God and that foundation produces a radically different view of liberty, property, justice,...
EP. 007 - Trump, Burke, and the Battle Over America's Real Constitution
Modern Age with Dan McCarthy
26 minutes
5 months ago
EP. 007 - Trump, Burke, and the Battle Over America's Real Constitution
In this bold episode of Modern Age, Dan McCarthy brings together two unexpected figures: Donald Trump and Edmund Burke. The goal is to uncover what is really at stake in today's constitutional and institutional debates. Ten years after Trump came down the escalator and now six months into his second term, Dan explores how Trump’s disruption of elite institutions mirrors Burke’s 18th-century critique of concentrated power in the British monarchy. Using Burke's analysis of formal and informal a...
Modern Age with Dan McCarthy
As America approaches its 250th anniversary (the Semiquincentennial), we return to the Declaration of Independence and its most debated phrase: “all men are created equal.” Why created equal? Why not merely born equal? In this episode, Dan McCarthy argues that the Declaration’s logic depends on a Creator: rights are not inventions of the state or products of social consensus, but endowments grounded in God and that foundation produces a radically different view of liberty, property, justice,...
