Dennis Carl Rasmussen

This is the story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships - and how it influenced modern thought. David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime, he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views...

Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created. Strikingly, the founders themselves were far less confident in what they had wrought, particularly by the end of their lives. In...

This audiobook read by Leon Nixon tells the remarkable story of how Frederick Douglass went from condemning the Constitution as a proslavery pact to celebrating it as a "glorious liberty document" that promises freedom to everyone.