Can America Still Govern Itself?

In Episode 03 of the Foundations of Freedom series, The Crisis of Moral Relativism, Dr. Anne Bradley and Professor Dennis Teti examine one of the central questions behind political life, foreign policy, and the American founding: can nations and citizens still make objective judgments about good and evil, justice and injustice, freedom and oppression? This episode explores how moral relativism weakens political judgment, why ancient debates about justice still matter, and how the American founding offered a different answer through natural law, natural rights, liberty, equality, and self-government. The conversation also looks at America 250, the Declaration of Independence, the connection between personal virtue and political freedom, and the modern tension between self-government and rule by administrative expertise. At stake is a deeper question: if a society loses confidence in objective truth, can it still defend freedom? Speaker Links: Dr. Anne Rathbone Bradley: https://www.iwp.edu/faculty/anne-rathbone-bradley/ Professor Dennis Teti: https://www.iwp.edu/faculty/dennis-teti/ The Institute of World Politics: https://www.iwp.edu/