Founding-Era History.

The founding is the reference point Dinesh returns to more than any other. Across books, films, and the daily podcast, he reads the present through Madison's theory of human nature, the structural genius of the Federalist Papers, and the long classical inheritance the founders drew on. The argument is consistent: the founders did not begin with a theory of government, they began with a theory of man, and the rest followed.

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The genius of the system is not that it expects virtue. It is that it does not require it.