Ep 2. THE PESSIMIST: JOHN ADAMS

In the age of trial-by-mob, collapsing institutions, and a culture that confuses virtue with social media posts, John Adams delivers the diagnosis no American wants to hear: no constitution can save a people who have lost their character. When institutions begin to fail, virtue is the only thing left standing between liberty and tyranny. Adams forces us to answer the question we may least want to address on our 250th birthday: what kind of people have we become?

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