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Ep. 43: What America Can Learn from the Roman Republic

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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What's America's National Character?

i think dissembling the rope of ethnicity, culture and language helps us better see maybe what we're dealing with. The ethnographers of these early periods are very hard to rely on because they were really sloppy. And i have now come to the view that if you want to talk about a national characteristic for a country, you have to ask, wel at what point in the nation's history are you asking the question? Wright: American character is very different in the 19 thirties than it would be in the two thousand twenties.

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