Dr. Larry P. Arnn is the 12th president of Hillsdale College and a professor of politics and history. He earned degrees from Arkansas State and Claremont Graduate School and studied at Oxford, where he assisted Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert. He led the Claremont Institute from 1985 to 2000, chaired the California Civil Rights Initiative, won the 2015 Bradley Prize, and authored three books.
On Monday, he joins Francis and Konstantin to discuss George Washington, the American Revolutionary War, and the Constitution of the United States.
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Want to go deeper before the episode? Larry Arnn features in Hillsdale College’s new free online course Revolutionary America: From Subjects to Citizens. It’s six 30 minute episodes on how the colonists went from loyal Englishmen to throwing off British rule and founding a republic. It’s free to enrol
If a state decides to withdraw from the Union, would the result need to be 1865 battles repeated, or is it conceivable that the USA could formally lose a state legally and without violence?
What elements of the constitution are now in need of review or becoming weakened due to things in the modern world that people couldn't have predicted for at the time of writing?