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"[The Declaration of Independence] is by far the most important document in our history."

Historian Gordon Wood shares how to read the Declaration of Independence in 2026, not as a promise already kept, but as an ideal we are still reaching toward. Watch the full conversation at 🔗 https://buff.ly/MgPRkVG

The classical liberal tradition depends on a functioning political center capable of protecting individual liberty from the extremes. Former U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander shares his perspective with Gov. Mitch Daniels on The Future of Liberty on how digital media has undermined exactly that. Hear the full conversation at 🔗 https://buff.ly/9EEVIbx

"It's not to escape, it's to enclose, to include." — Jacques Barzun

In Liberty Fund's Intellectual Portrait Series, Barzun argues the Romantics were defending the irreducible importance of the individual against rationalist excess, a tradition central to classical liberal thought. Watch the full conversation at 🔗 https://buff.ly/aPQ3Jxp

"It's itself a lived example of what an almost ideal civil society would be."

For over sixty years, Liberty Fund has convened nearly 6,000 conferences bringing together people from widely different backgrounds to engage with ideas that have occupied serious minds for millennia. Learn more at 🔗 https://buff.ly/nYI6btY

From the very beginning, a "poison" was at the heart of the American experiment, and the founders knew it.

Michael Auslin with the Hoover Institution highlights the passionate condemnation of the slave trade that Jefferson wrote into the Declaration, and why Congress took it out. Listen on The Future of Liberty with Gov. Mitch Daniels at 🔗 https://buff.ly/XNS4yAf

As Congress debates the scope of government spending, Allison Schrager's observation from The Future of Liberty feels more relevant than ever: the homesteading program didn't protect Americans from risk. It rewarded them for taking it.

Hear the full conversation between Allison Schrager and Gov. Mitch Daniels at 🔗 https://buff.ly/3DJqHUq

After selling two companies, Brendan McCord found himself asking a question he had never seriously considered: what is a good life? His answer led him back to the ancient thinkers, fifteen minutes a day at first.

He sat down with Liberty Fund to discuss how the great books can reshape the way we think about success and purpose. Hear the full conversation at 🔗 https://buff.ly/Tdn3QD9

"Every dictator has a bill of rights. What gives us our freedom is the structure of our Constitution, the checks and the balances."

On our newest episode of The Future of Liberty, former U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander sits down with Gov. Mitch Daniels to make the case that Article I isn't a technicality, it's the foundation of American freedom. Hear the full conversation at 🔗 https://buff.ly/vSssN2R

Tocqueville warned that when citizens offload responsibility to a central authority, they gradually enfeeblement themselves. That warning has never been more relevant.

Brendan McCord of the Cosmos Institute sat down with Liberty Fund to discuss why the great thinkers of the past speak directly to the present. See the full discussion at 🔗 https://buff.ly/Tdn3QD9