Jonathan Turley

and asks, can that unique American republic survive in the 21st century?

And it looks at everything from robotics to AI to global governance, like systems like the EU.

And I believe that we can.

But the key here is, yeah.

Well, the key is for us to remember who we are in this moment.

And it is a lot of effort to sort of discard the U.S.

Constitution and the values that brought us here.

Those values are going to be the very thing that will allow us to survive this century.

Well, Paine is without question one of the most fascinating historical figures I have ever researched.

He is just extraordinary.

Keep in mind that when he landed in Philadelphia two years before the Declaration of Independence, he had to be carried off the ship.

He was a wreck.

He had failed in everything he had put his hand to, marriages, employment.

He had been fired from every job he held.

And he sort of washed up on these shores.

There was only one person who saw something in that wreckage, and he was Benjamin Franklin.

And Franklin met Thomas Paine when he was penniless and totally out of the running of anything.

And it was Benjamin Franklin that sent him to this country.

Two years later, he would be called the penman of the revolution.

But where the book criticizes Paine is that he was a believer in pure democratic action, the sort of Rousseau view that the general will will produce good things.