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What happens when you mix 17th-century border-country murder ballads with 18th-century Methodist hymns, and leave the result to stew in Appalachia for a while? Eventually, you get America — with all the wild weirdness of the nation: the hunger for freedom, yes, but also a deep well of class resentment, powerful senses of God & sex & death, and that strange and wonderful American humor about how we oughta get drunk and wrestle a bear.

Robert P. George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and Director of Princeton’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. Professor George has chaired the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and served on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the President’s Council on Bioethics. He holds JD and MTS degrees from Harvard University as well as the degrees of DPhil, BCL, DCL, and DLitt from Oxford University, along with twenty-three honorary doctorates. The author of Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality and In Defense of Natural Law, among many other works, he is a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal, the Bradley Prize for Intellectual and Civic Achievement, and many other awards and honors. He is also a well-regardedbluegrass banjo player and guitarist.

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