# Madison's Notes: S5E12 250 Years of Special Providence: On American Grand Strategy Since the Declaration with Walter Russell Mead

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Published: 2026-07-03T15:50:35+00:00
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## Resource

To celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary, Madison’s Notes is having a special Fourth of July episode to close out the season. So in Episode 12 of Season 5, I have as our guest Walter Russell Mead to talk about American grand strategy since the Declaration of Independence. A Yale graduate, Mr. Mead is a professor at the […]

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