The United States at 250, Built on 2500 Years of the West
- Jul 3
- 1 min read
On July 3, 2026, James Hankins appeared on the top-rated podcast Dad Saves America, hosted by the filmmaker, entrepreneur, and father John Papola. The wide-ranging interview touches on a variety of topics, including what has happened to the study of Western civilization in the universities, virtue politics, the unique parallel structure of church and state in the medieval period, how the medieval church made its peace with capitalism, and the debt of the Founding Fathers to the Western republican tradition going back to the Romans. The conversation concludes with a review of the current state of primary and secondary education and an encomium of the classical education movement.
NB, the podcast was recorded several months previous to its airing.