Thomas Ricks
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222 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Jul
Thomas Ricks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He has served well in the revolution and in politics.
And he constantly is using different pseudonyms, all of people who were virtuous yet disrespected by their peers.
Yeah, and our heroes are not particularly people you want to emulate.
Some of these rock stars and sports stars and so on, and people who we thought of as statesmen, you know, in our world today, we find out are greatly flawed.
You actually just made me think of something I hadn't thought before.
I think it's true that George Washington...
as president, puts kind of a mold of Cato on the American presidency.
We expect our presidents to be dignified, reserved, prudent, and to respect the dignity of the office.
And he very much brings that to the presidency as he tries to kind of put
the flesh of norms on the bones of the Constitution.
And he establishes a lot of norms about how the president is supposed to behave.
And then he steps down after two terms and turns over power gracefully to his successor.
And I think that's one reason I think that Donald Trump has shocked people so much.
He is so much outside that Cato mold.
Yes.
Which is really a stoical mode for the presidency.
The question on Confederate monuments also is asked, who put them up, when did they put them up, and what did they think they were doing when they put them up?
Certainly.
Certainly.
And a lot of them are really celebrations of segregation and Jim Crow and the destruction of Reconstruction.
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