Episode

America at 250: What Did the Founders Get Right?

Podcast: The Michael Shermer Show
Published: Jul 6, 2026
Duration seconds: 1037
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Michael Shermer makes the case that the U.S. Founding Fathers were not only steeped in Enlightenment values on which the Declaration of Independence was based, but they were also scientists searching to discover moral truths and values on which to base a rational society, which they succeeded in doing in this document along with the Constitution.