Founding Myths—With Tad Stoermer
On this episode of Fighting Fascism, historian Tad Stoermer revisits the American founding, exploring the Revolution, the fight over the Constitution, and the enduring legacy of democratic dissent.
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Founding Myths w/ Tad Stoermer / Fighting Fascism
To celebrate the 250th, we’re looking back at the founding with Tad Stoermer, author of the NYTimes bestseller “A Resistance History of the United States.” Why did the same people who kicked off the American Revolution actively oppose the adoption of the Constitution? Was Rhode Island always a mob state? What can we learn from the musical 1776, starring Mr. Feeny? All this and more on this special 4th (well, 6th) of July episode of Fighting Fascism.
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A copy of the ‘Declaration of Independence’, hangs at Bull House, a former home of Thomas Paine, on July 04, 2026 in Lewes, England.
(Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)To celebrate the 250th, we’re looking back at the founding with Tad Stoermer, author of the New York Times bestseller A Resistance History of the United States. Why did the same people who kicked off the American Revolution actively oppose the adoption of the Constitution? Was Rhode Island always a mob state? What can we learn from the musical 1776, starring Mr. Feeny? All this and more on this special Fourth (well, sixth) of July episode of Fighting Fascism.
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Dope Popes w/ Matt Sitman / Fighting Fascism
Back in May, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas”—a surprisingly forceful call-out of dehumanizing technology, Big Tech oligarchs, and an economic order that casts the few as gods and the many as disposable. To talk about this work (and Aaron’s growing Catholicism-envy, and the utterly pathetic “faith” of J.D. Vance), we invited Matthew Sitman, co-host of the great Know Your Enemy Podcast and official Catholic sage of the erudite left, who walks us through this era of moral leadership from the Catholic Church. This is a good one. We swear, so help us God!
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