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"There are so many ways that the document could have been destroyed."

The people tasked with preserving the Declaration had no science to guide them, only instinct, and it nearly cost us everything. Hear the full conversation with Hoover Institution Research Fellow Michael Auslin on The Future of Liberty with Gov. Mitch Daniels at 🔗 https://buff.ly/XNS4yAf

Free and flourishing societies depend on the competition of ideas. For over six decades Liberty Fund has convened nearly 6,000 conferences grounded in the conviction that great conversations about great ideas can enrich the mind, strengthen the prospects of liberty, and improve the human condition.

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Historians Gordon Wood and Jack Greene sit down with Liberty Fund to discuss the logic behind the Stamp Act and the crisis it unleashed. Watch the full conversation at 🔗 https://buff.ly/MgPRkVG

The Declaration of Independence almost did not make it, fleeing Congress, rolled up in boxes, and nearly captured by the British.

Michael Auslin with the Hoover Institution shares why the physical fate of a document reflects the fragility of the ideas it carries. Listen to the full episode of The Future of Liberty with Gov. Mitch Daniels at 🔗 https://buff.ly/pG2lMPE

Edmund Burke argued that the real social contract is not between the classes. It is between the dead, the living, and the unborn.

Public debt, says Hoover's Niall Ferguson, is what "allows the living to consume at the expense of the unborn." Watch his full conversation with George F. Will at 🔗 https://buff.ly/6r6uZlE

The philosopher builder is not a philosopher king. It is someone who takes big ideas seriously and then goes and builds the institution the moment requires. Franklin did it with the library. The Cosmos Institute is doing it with AI.

Brendan McCord sat down with Liberty Fund to discuss why that combination of thought and action matters more than ever.

"The demagogue, who will certainly one day become President [...] will be constrained and will be unable to become emperor or king."

Listen as Hoover Institution's Niall Ferguson shares why populism is ultimately self-liquidating, and why he remains less worried than most about the state of American democracy. Watch his full conversation with George F. Will at 🔗 https://buff.ly/6r6uZlE

"Why do certain things persist and others don't?"

Hoover Institution Research Fellow Michael Auslin joins Gov. Mitch Daniels to discuss his book, National Treasure, and explores what the survival of the Declaration of Independence tells us about how ideas endure across 250 years.

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