EPISODE · Feb 21, 2026 · 8 MIN
Author Walter Isaacson (Extended)
from The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert · host CBS
Best-selling author Walter Isaacson describes the Declaration of Independence as "America's mission statement" and argues that the ideals of equality set forth in the opening line of the document reflected the hopes of the country"s founders, not the reality of existing civil rights at the time. "The Greatest Sentence Ever Written" is available now.
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