Private virtue and public governance. Why does liberty depend on individual virtue?

Pigweed and Crowhill record another “at a distance” podcast on Skype, maintaining social distance during the coronavirus pandemic. They each review a different beer: Pigweed drinks and review Ex Patriot IPA from Three Weavers, and Crowhill drinks and review Blackbeard’s Breakfast from Heavy Seas.

This episode was inspired by a speech Ben Shapiro gave at Liberty University.

The founding fathers said that our form of government only works for a virtuous people. Why would that be true? What is it about the American style of government that requires personal virtue? And what virtues are meant?

The boys ponder what “self governance” means, and how it fits uniquely into the American system.

The inherent warning is obvious. If people won’t govern themselves, who will govern them?