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300. Men and the Conservative Vision | Senator Josh Hawley

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is the Anti-Slavery Principle the Basis for the US?

The US is based on an alternative anti-slavery principle that's generated by this vanguard, says Julian Zelizer. The American tradition of individual liberty really runs back to what I would call the revolution of the Bible, he argues. That was a revolutionary concept, as you know, in the ancient world and it ripples through English history, British history, through American history. Now, the left, I think, is fundamentally opposed to that tradition. They view that tradition as oppressive. And so I think much like the French revolutionaries of the 1700s, or for that matter, Marx a century later, they think that to end the oppressiveness of that tradition, you've got

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