ICYMI: Podcast - What's the 18th Century Got to Do with It?
Noah Shusterman, historian and author, discusses the knotted roots of our current Second Amendment debate
Modern gun rights activists like to paint themselves as “absolutists” who look to the Second Amendment as an untouchable decree, neatly forgetting technological developments or the historical roots of its birth.
Noah Shusterman, Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has spent a large portion of his professional career diving into the 18th century roots of the notion of “the right to bear arms,” what it meant to the Founding Fathers then, and how it’s currently been subverted.
We recently brought Dr. Shusterman in for an Armed with Reason podcast to discuss the interpretive tangle of “a well regulated militia.”
In case you missed it, check out the full podcast below.
Noah Shusterman’s latest book is Armed Citizens, the Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment.
Photo via https://noahshusterman.net/about/
Top image via The New York Public Library on Unsplash. - "The midnight march : the American troops, under Colonel William Prescott, taking possession on Breed's Hill on the night of June 16th, 1775." The New York Public Library Digital Collections.