Stand Up Citizen

By: Patrick Moore
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  • Summary

  • As we approach the 2020 election, a podcast for ordinary citizens to help sort through our fractious politics, and their distorting effect on how we make our choices.. A non-partisan look at American first principles - not an academic exercise, but a reminder on what our founders intended and expected of us as citizens. Founding documents will refresh our civics IQ, so we can look critically at our current issues. Think of Stand Up Citizen as civics for grownups.
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Episodes
  • Republic At Risk

    Republic At Risk
    Aug 20 2020

    Broken norms and bad faith are interfering with the proper functioning of our government.  How can we tolerate this in a time of pandemic and economic calamity?  
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    20 mins
  • Warnings from History

    Warnings from History
    Aug 11 2020

    Using several sources, we explore the kinds of actions and trends that should alarm us about the advance of tyranny.  Both recent books such as How Democracies Die and On Tyranny, and works a few decades old are used to inform us on how to be vigilant.
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    22 mins
  • Informed Citizen

    Informed Citizen
    May 13 2020

    In our current political and cultural climate we need citizenship education more than ever.  We look at what our founders had to say about the need for informed, educated citizens in the republic they created for us
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    20 mins

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