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To Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Soul of America

To Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Soul of America

著者： Sue B. Howell
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In 2026, the United States turns two hundred and fifty years old. Anniversaries of this size invite two very different kinds of commemoration. One looks backward with a fixed and comfortable pride — flags, fireworks, a story about founding that ends before it gets complicated. The other treats the anniversary as an occasion for the harder, more useful work: an honest accounting of what the country has built, what it has broken, and what it still owes the people living inside it.

This series is an attempt at the second kind.

To Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Soul of America is daily podcast built around a simple premise: that the "soul" of a nation is not a slogan but a set of institutions, habits, and unresolved arguments — and that understanding any of them requires looking closely rather than looking away.

We organize the podcast episodes around the themes like healthcare, law, education, local government, culture, sports, family, food, science, and the hundred quieter systems that determine how Americans actually live. Every episode is targeted to regular Americans; no jargon, no academic throat-clearing, and no obligation to land on one side of an argument rather than describe it fairly.

The episodes are not bound by a single argument but a single method: look at an American institution as it actually operates, not as its founders imagined it, and ask who bears the cost of the difference. The oath this series takes its title from — sworn by every American president since 1789 — doesn't distinguish between the parts of the country that are working and the parts that are not. It asks for the whole thing, preserved, protected, and defended, which is only possible if the whole thing is first looked at honestly.

To Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Soul of America, this podcast doesn't just skim the daily headlines—it exposes the structural crises, deliberate policy choices, and profit-driven systems that have fundamentally broken American public institutions. If you are tired of partisan talking points and want to understand the actual mechanics of how this country operates, you have found your new obsession.

Tune In and Wake Up

The Soul of America is rigorous, eye-opening, and endlessly compelling. It is designed for listeners who want to understand the actual mechanics of regulatory capture, systemic inequality, and the modern culture wars. If you want to know exactly how the system was built, who it actually serves, and why it feels like it is breaking apart, this is your definitive audio guide.

Subscribe now to The Soul of America wherever you get your podcasts—because you can't fix a broken machine until you understand how it works.

To purchase the book series, visit: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8MJDDGQ

Sue B. Howell 2026 世界 社会科学
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    To Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Soul of America (30 book series)

    US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8MJDDGQ

    UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H8MJDDGQ

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    US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8SGHN9K

    UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H8SGHN9K

    Available across all Amazon Stores Worldwide
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    To Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Soul of America (30 book series)

    US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8MJDDGQ

    UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H8MJDDGQ

    To Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Soul of America: Volume Two — Fentanyl Nation: Inside America's Opioid Catastrophe

    US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8SGHN9K

    UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H8SGHN9K

    Available across all Amazon Stores Worldwide
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    To Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Soul of America (30 book series)

    US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8MJDDGQ

    UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H8MJDDGQ

    To Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Soul of America: Volume Two — Fentanyl Nation: Inside America's Opioid Catastrophe

    US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8SGHN9K

    UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H8SGHN9K

    Available across all Amazon Stores Worldwide
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