Olson seemed thrown, even a bit offended, by the question. I couldn’t blame him. Here was an outsider, someone he barely knew, chipping away at the assumptions that had formed the foundation of his life. The longer we spoke, however, the more introspective he became. “I think I’m probably doing the thing we’ve always done here: telling myself a story,” Olson said. “The stories Liberty tells itself about the founding are only half-true.
