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On the eve of our country’s 250th birthday, would the Founding Fathers recognize the America we live in today? Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the seismic legal and moral shifts that have happened since the Declaration of Independence was penned and how they have shaped the political left and right – and we’ll talk about why we might be surprised if we could talk to Washington, Franklin and Jefferson today. His article “What the Founders Would Say Now” was published in The Atlantic.