Constitutional scholar Bill Norton wrote "Speaking the Language of Liberty" with Mark Herr because he realized most people need more than a few good quotes from the Founders — they need a paradigm shift. In this segment from The Jenny Beth Show, he tells the story of a woman, patriotic "through and through," who stood up in his class and admitted: "I thought I was a patriot, but I am pushing my view of patriotism on others. I am being tyrannical."
It's a pattern-interrupt that reframes what liberty actually asks of us — wanting freedom for others as much as for yourself — and why "freedom-sounding words" are not enough. Norton closes with the one short book he says every student should read first: Frédéric Bastiat's "The Law."
This is a preview of the show's founding-principles training series, which begins airing Monday, July 6.
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00:00 — Speaking the Language of Liberty
00:43 — A Paradigm Shift, Not Just Quotes
01:47 — The Patriot Who Called Herself a Tyrant
02:14 — Why Bastiat's "The Law" Comes First
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