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Kresta in the Afternoon – July 4, 2024 – Hour 2

We discuss religous liberty and the American founding with Philip Munoz and Paul Kengor.

 

1619, 1776 and the United States of America

There’s no arguing it: The United States of America, as our founders conceived it, started in 1776. Paul Kengor joins us.

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1619, 1776 and the United States of America

Paul Kengor is author of several books, most recently The Worst of Indignities: The Catholic Church on Slavery. His other books include The Devil and Bella Dodd, The Devil and Karl Marx, and A Pope and A President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century. He has also written spiritual biographies of Ronald Reagan, Hillary Clinton, and George W Bush. He’s professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pa., and senior academic fellow at the Institute for Faith and Freedom and is the editor of the American Spectator.

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Religious Liberty and the American Founding

Does the First Amendment guarantee us the right to be free from religion in the public square? Does it guarantee religious individuals and institutions the right to be exempt from otherwise valid laws that burden their religious beliefs and practices? Dr. Vincent Phillip Munoz is our guest.

Dr. Phillip Munoz is the Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, where he is the Founding Director of Notre Dame's Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government.

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