Reconquest Episode 44: Star-Spangled Crown. Guest: Charles Coulombe

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Our forty-forth show is an in-studio interview with Charles Coulombe, concerning his latest book, Star-Spangled Crown: A Simple Guide to the American Monarchy.

• Star-Spangled Crown: A Simple Guide to the American Monarchy — purchase the book at Amazon.com
• Tumblar House — website of the book’s publisher
• Charles A. Coulombe Author Page — numerous articles at catholicism.org 
• Star-Spangled Crown by Charles A. Coulombe: Review — by Roger Buck at Cor Jesu Sacratissimum

From the book’s back cover:

For 240 years, most Americans have identified our country with its government as the embodiment of “Freedom” and the nation itself. Take away the Constitution, Congress, and presidential elections, and not only liberty but the United States themselves would vanish.

Or would they? We have a government that imposes social change from above at breakneck speed, while each presidential election seems to offer even more pathetic choices than the one before. Many are scratching their heads and wondering – not just “where are we going?” but “how did we get here?” Is our governmental system itself – the leading symbol of the American way of life – heading for a meltdown? And if it is, what – if anything – shall be left of our country?

Star-Spangled Crown is a book that comes to us from over a century in the future. That feared meltdown has already occurred – but these United States survived the loss of the presidency. Erected on the ruins of our current regime, a Monarchy has emerged; contrary to all of our 21st century notions, it is a thoroughly American institution. How it functions – as and where all governments, including our present one must function – is the subject of the book.

Star-Spangled Crown is not a call for radical change. It is an invitation for serious thought about the realities of civil life that we as a people have spent more than two centuries ignoring or avoiding at our ultimate peril. What values shall our society express? Who makes those decisions? By what right do they do so? What is America really – or, as our 22nd century author might say, what are the United States? Star-Spangled Crown offers one set of answers from a possible future – but above all, it calls on you to ask the questions in the present.