Join the Hoover Institution for a special live taping of Firing Line with Margaret Hoover, part of The Ideas That Made U.S.: Dialogues on Freedom, our year-long series marking America’s 250th anniversary.

Margaret Hoover will moderate a conversation with General Jim Mattis, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, and Ryan Holiday, bestselling author and modern interpreter of Stoic philosophy, on the character that sustains a republic. Drawing on experience in military command, classical philosophy, and the enduring example of America’s founding generation, the discussion will explore the virtues that have defined American leadership at its best: discipline, moral courage, humility in the exercise of power, and a profound sense of duty.