Today, The American Story podcast releases five stories; and will release two more on New Year’s Eve. They are Christmas stories somewhere between It’s a Wonderful Life and Die Hard, about an immigrant boy who came to America on Christmas Eve 1956 and holds a special place in the history of the Claremont Institute. He was “born American but in the wrong place.”  Merry Christmas! Chris Flannery EPISODE 19 - DECEMBER 24, 2019

BORN AMERICAN “Why are we going to America?” . . . “We were born American, but in the wrong place” LISTEN NOW

EPISODE 20 - DECEMBER 24, 2019

THE CRISIS OF MAN It was spring, 1946, and Albert Camus was in New York City on the only visit he would ever make to America LISTEN NOW

EPISODE 21 - DECEMBER 24, 2019

OF ORANGES AND SHAKESPEAREAN DREAMS For the rest of his life, oranges would always smell like freedom LISTEN NOW

EPISODE 22 - DECEMBER 24, 2019

A LITTLE ACADEME He always regarded the human mind as free to be determined by the truth about the greatest questions LISTEN NOW

EPISODE 23 - DECEMBER 24, 2019

TOTUS PORCUS I never knew so much hog in a man LISTEN NOW

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The American Story is a production by Chris Flannery of the Claremont Institute.

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