Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Darel Paul to talk about his article from the February print edition, “Prohibition Revisited.” They discuss the changing historiographical consensus on prohibition, contemporary puritanical attitudes toward mask-wearing, and what the right can learn from the temperance movement.
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