The American state was historically unique in its time for being born of ideals. Its founders were at once among the most forward-seeing and backward-gleaning people of the age. Today we mostly think of the future as a corrective of the past, but the ideals of the American revolution were ancient ones, and those ideals were inseparable from the founders’ reading of the classical past. Please join us for this informal conversation where we shall read a little of what those founders read as a means of standing where the Revolution stood. Reservations full.