{"podcast":{"title":"Deborah Lebree's podcast","slug":"deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113","podcast_index_feed_id":7041113,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6015089/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast--6015089","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/images.spreaker.com/nuvolari-assets/yellow_square_mic.jpg","author":"Deborah Lebree","episode_count":1000,"summary":null,"last_synced_at":"2026-09-19T16:21:39.869546+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113"},"episode":{"title":"250 Years Later, Why We’re Still Fighting About Our Founding","slug":"250-years-later-why-we-re-still-fighting-about-our-founding","published_at":"2026-07-03T09:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113/250-years-later-why-we-re-still-fighting-about-our-founding","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/250-years-later-why-we-re-still-fighting-about-our-founding--72802677","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72802677/default.mp3","summary":"Two hundred and fifty years ago, the founding fathers gave rise to a new nation. They also gave rise to an enduring myth about their virtue and what that meant about America’s virtue as a country. Jia Lynn Yang, a New York Times journalist, discusses how the founding myth has evolved, why we are still fighting about it and why it may hold the key to America’s future. Guest: Jia Lynn Yang , a New York Times journalist writing explanatory pieces about the ideas underlying the news. Background reading: Is there a founding story that can unify left and right ? Photo: Michelle Gustafson for The New York Times For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily . Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher . For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.","meta_description":"Two hundred and fifty years ago, the founding fathers gave rise to a new nation. They also gave rise to an enduring myth about their virtue and what that…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2281,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113/episodes/250-years-later-why-we-re-still-fighting-about-our-founding/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113/250-years-later-why-we-re-still-fighting-about-our-founding.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}