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Vanishing Adulthood and the American Moment: A Conversation with Senator Ben Sasse

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

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The Role of Reading in the Life of the Nation

The true founder and father of America if there's one guy without whom you couldn't have the American founding I think it's Gutenberg. Math literacy and the deliberation that comes with becoming a nation of readers is truly a prerequisite for the American experiment. We want our kids to be active physically running down the world but I also want them to be able to sit still enough to read so we can get them addicted and then substitute what's in it.

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