Can we still build like the Founders did? On this episode of Founding Philosophies, Kamron Spivey talks with Rodney Mims Cook Jr. — chairman of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and president of the National Monuments Foundation — about restoring beauty to Washington, D.C., the new Triumphal Arch planned for Arlington National Cemetery, and his family's personal ties to Robert E. Lee's legacy. They discuss why monuments matter, how his father's epiphany in the Lee Chapel shaped a lifelong friendship with the King family, and what America's built environment should say about the nation as it turns 250.