{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Honest Path","title":"on the Kind of Men America Needs Now","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4047,"description":"In this episode I (Jon) misuse the word typologic, twice! I meant archetypal. Can you find it in your heart to forgive me? For America?\nAmerica, We Need a New Beginning | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat: \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k4oajXMsVQ\nPOD Guide: \nQUARTER 1 — Great Beginnings\n- The New World wasn't a blank slate morally — it was the old world's brutality and settlement playing out again, just on new ground.\n- But underneath the brutality was a genuinely new idea: a nation with no ethnicity, no blood ties, no government-sanctioned religion, and no God-appointed king.\n- That's not just political theory — it's a Christian mythology running underneath American identity. Leave your ethnic homeland, cross through water, build something for all people, created equal. A New Kingdom. A city on a hill.\n- Still unmatched: our protections on speech and personal liberty.\n- A blank canvas big enough for a million paintings\nAction Items:\n- Pray for your country.\n- Read one page of the Declaration or the Federalist Papers this week — go back to the source.\nQUARTER 2 — Can a Great Nation Become a Good One? (The State of the Game)\n- The dream came with a bill nobody wanted to pay. The promise was delayed a century and more, and America paid for its hypocrisy in its own blood.\n- Manifest Destiny was a bridge too far — the same nation that said \"created equal\" built an empire on the backs of people it refused to call equal.\n- Liberty at (any) cost — the dream of the average man colliding head-on with the spirit of mammon.\n- The American Dream promised wealth creation for everyone. It's more true than any nation in history has managed. It's also true that some people have always been a little more equal than others.\nAction Items:\n- Name one place your own hometown benefited from the dream and one place it paid the bill - for the hypocrisy.\nQUARTER 3 — The Men America Needs\n- It was never a policy problem first. It's a man problem.\n- America needs Serious young men....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0-iTCIytQEYlYB9VGmt2tMFZGYvh70L-G7jhXPVbmEA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lNzhl/YTcyOTMxNjNlMGM5/Y2Y2ZTc3Zjc3MWYw/OWVmMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}