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Essays
It Usually Begins with Plato (or Cicero)!
C. Bradley Thompson looks at what the founding of the United States owed to Greek and Roman antiquity.
Essays
The Benefits and Hazards of the Classical Legacy
Roderick T. Long looks at how classical learning shaped the American Founders' political thought.
Issues
The Founders, the Classics, and the Origins of Classical Liberalism
The American Founders were deeply read in the western classics. What did they learn, and how did they apply it?