"The American Revolution is not just a revolution. It's not just a bloody civil war...It's a world war."

Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein break down their new series "The American Revolution" with Margaret Hoover.

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At the end of Ken Burns' new series "The American Revolution," the narration states the architects of the federal Constitution “feared that a demagogue might incite citizens into betraying the American experiment."

Margaret Hoover asked, is that a warning?

“It's a timeless warning,” said Burns.

On a 1976 #FiringLine, William F. Buckley Jr. reflected on the motivations behind the American Revolution.

Our guests are filmmakers who produced a new @pbs.org documentary series about the revolution, the people who fought it, and what it means today.

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“1929” author @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social says the current deregulatory environment is “very similar” to the 1920s.

“There's a lot of conversation about democratizing finance…and all sorts of new products that are going to be put in the market,” he says.

Six months before the 1929 crash, DNC chair John Raskob launched a propaganda campaign to tear down President Herbert Hoover.

"1929" author @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social says Hoover refused to defend against those attacks--and his reputation suffered as a result.

"1929" author @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social says one of the "great surprises" of his research was that polling suggested the economy is not what doomed President Hoover's 1932 reelection bid.

"[Hoover] could have reversed himself on... Prohibition... and then I wonder whether he would have won."

"Every crash is really about one thing. It's about credit, it's about debt, too much debt in the system," says @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social, author of "Too Big to Fail" and "1929."

"That is the match that lights the fire of every financial crisis."

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"1929" author @andrewrsorkin.sbky.social shares his advice for how to prepare for the next financial crisis.

“The truth is, you will be much more successful as a professional optimist than as a professional skeptic or Cassandra…if you had kept your money under your mattress, you would have lost.”

What caused the 1929 stock market crash--and what can we learn from it today?

"Every crash is really about one thing," says "1929" author @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social. "It's about credit, it's about debt."

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President Herbert Hoover took office less than nine months before the stock market crash of 1929.

Could anyone have averted the crash at that point?

"I think it would have been very, very hard to do such a thing," says @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social, author of "1929."

As @radiofreeasiapr.bsky.social suspends broadcasting, @mcfaulmike.bsky.social laments the Trump administration shutting down soft power institutions.

"That is such a tragedy…," McFaul says. "We're not going to win this competition with the Chinese and the Russians if we unilaterally disarm."

Former Ambassador @mcfaulmike.bsky.social says Zelensky cannot recognize Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territory in peace negotiations.

"If he did that, he would be ousted."

"But what he could do, delicately, is say, we will only pursue reunification through peaceful means."

Fmr. Amb. @mcfaulmike.bsky.social says recent sanctions on Russian oil companies "should have been done three and a half years ago."

"More weapons faster. Better weapons faster. More sanctions faster. Better sanctions faster... We might have been able to push this war to an end faster."

Former Ambassador to Russia @mcfaulmike.bsky.social says Trump's recent criticism of Vladimir Putin over Ukraine is "very different" than in the past.

"For about a decade, Putin could do no wrong for #PresidentTrump."

But he adds, "It's easy to talk tough, it's harder to act tough."

"They're thinking long-term all the time... And they don't want to burn it all down to create Marxism-Leninism in America and Europe," former Amb. @mcfaulmike.bsky.social says of China.

"But [Putin has] shown that the power that he has... he’s willing to use to burn it all down."

What will it take to bring Putin to the negotiating table over Ukraine?

"We need to deny him the capability to continue to fight the war," says former Ambassador @mcfaulmike.bsky.social, adding that weapons, sanctions, and economic support for Ukraine would be "a positive signal."

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