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Matt and Ezra talk about what the tax bill actually does, whether the deficit matters, and a white paper about rugged individualism.

White paper: Frontier Culture: The Roots and Persistence of “Rugged Individualism” in the United States

Other referenced works:

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history)

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

Dialect Diversity in America: The Politics of Language Change 

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