Reza Aslan – An American Martyr in Persia

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Glenn Loury

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🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

0:00 Persia at the turn of the twentieth century

6:43 Woodrow Wilson’s contradictions

11:14 Did Howard Baskerville escape the prejudices of his time?

16:39 How Baskerville got involved in Persia’s democratic revolution

26:43 How Czar Nicholas II aided the counter-revolution

32:29 The erasure of Baskerville in post-1979 Iran

36:31 The theological origin of the Islamic Republic of Iran

45:01 Reza: Ordinary Iranians actually love American culture

48:51 The internal and external pressures on Iran

57:21 The amorality of foreign policy

Recorded October 25, 2023

Links and Readings

Reza’s book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Reza’s new book, An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville

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0:44.0	Hello everybody, this is Glenn Lorry.
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0:50.0	I teach at Brown University and I'm a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
0:55.4	The Manhattan Institute sponsors the Glen Show.
0:58.6	This week my guest is Resa Aslan.
1:00.6	He's a writer and scholar who is the author of many books, some of them bestsellers,
1:06.8	Zellit, a biography of Jesus controversy.
1:10.8	And most recently, an American martyr in Persia, the epic life and tragic death of Howard
1:17.4	Baskerville, which it was my great pleasure to read and learn from, and we're here to talk about that amongst other things.
1:25.9	So welcome, Reza.
1:27.9	Thanks, Glenn.
1:28.9	It's great to be on the program.
1:30.9	Thank you.
1:31.9	You are Iranian by dissent, am I correct?
1:34.0	That's right. I was actually born in Iran and my family came to the US in 1979 after the
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