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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.

Lauren Weiner is a widely published essayist in Baltimore, who has written for such outlets as the Wall Street Journal, New Criterion, Baltimore Sun, and American Purpose. A guitarist and performer of American music from folk and bluegrass to pop and country, she has written about folk music and its politics for Commentary, First Things, and other journals

Wilfred M. McClay holds the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College. His book, The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, received the 1995 Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American intellectual history. Among his other books are The Student’s Guide to U.S. History, Why Place Matters, and the bestselling Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story. He served for eleven years on the National Council on the Humanities, and is currently is a member of the U.S. Commission on the Semiquincentennial.

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