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Founding Fictions

Founding Fictions

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Is the American federal government today a new form of the very tyranny it was built to destroy? Welcome to Founding Fictions, the show where we tear down the myths of the American founding to understand the reality we live in today.

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Arielle Van Gundy 2025
Politique et gouvernement Sciences politiques
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      We all know the slogan "No taxation without representation," but what if the American Revolution wasn't just a political dispute, but a violent economic divorce? This episode argues that the Founders weren't just fighting a king; they were fighting an entire economic system called Mercantilism. We trace the story from a furious smuggler's riot on the Boston docks to a calm philosophical dinner in Scotland, showing how Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations provided the economic declaration of independence that empowered the political one.

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    • The Scottish Crucible
      Nov 21 2025

      This episode of "Founding Fictions" challenges the myth that America's founding ideals were a simple inheritance from English thinkers like John Locke. Instead, it reveals the overwhelmingly Scottish roots of the revolution, tracing two powerful streams that converged in the colonies. The first is the moral philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment (Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Reid), which provided a new language for virtue and the "pursuit of happiness." The second is a centuries-old theological tradition of radical rebellion (Samuel Rutherford), which supplied the moral and religious duty to resist tyranny. Discover how these two streams were carried to America and fused by key figures like John Witherspoon and James Wilson, forming the true ideological DNA of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

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      11 min
    • The Godmother of Thanksgiving: The Invention and The Reckoning (Part 2)
      Nov 17 2025

      For nearly two centuries, the "First Thanksgiving" was a lost footnote in history. So how did a forgotten diplomatic meeting in 1621 become the mandatory national dinner we know today? In this episode, we peel back the layers of America’s favorite feast. We travel from the 17th-century mud of Plymouth to the industrial clamor of the 19th century to meet the "Godmother of Thanksgiving"—the magazine editor who engineered the holiday to stop a Civil War. Plus, we explore the hard history the myth tries to hide: the brutal war that followed the feast and the 1970 rebellion that changed the holiday forever.

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      16 min
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