The Assault on Western Civilization | Dr. Joseph Loconte

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Dan Crenshaw

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4.6 • 16K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Joseph Loconte, Presidential Scholar in Residence at New College of Florida, joined Rep. Crenshaw to trace the origins of Western Civilization and America’s founding values, from Greek and Roman cultures to the influence of Judaism, Christianity, and the Enlightenment. And they examine the deep resentment against Western Civilization among the far left and increasingly among populists on the right.

Joseph Loconte, PhD, is a Presidential Scholar in Residence at New College of Florida, Senior Fellow at the Institute on Religion and Democracy, and the C.S. Lewis Scholar for Public Life at Grove City College. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller "A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm". Follow him on Twitter at @JosephLoconte.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created.
0:03.2	As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.2	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.8	This is the podcast.
0:10.0	For insights into the issues.
0:11.5	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all,
0:14.2	in-depth discussions, breaking it down into simple terms.
0:17.9	We hold, we hold these truths.
0:20.1	We hold these truths.
0:21.2	With Dan Krenshaw.
0:22.1	The eagle has landed.
0:24.0	Welcome back everybody.
0:25.0	Today I want to have a great conversation about Western civilization.
0:28.0	We have quite the guest to do just that.
0:30.0	We're joined by Joseph Laconte. want to have this conversation because we've seen in
0:37.1	recent history as many universities are ditching teaching Western civilization in favor of other worthless woke topics, gender studies and whatnot.
0:46.5	And there's even some on the right-wing populist side that I think question America's founding
0:50.2	principles and question what conservatism is even about.
0:54.7	Just today there was well-known conservative commentators, I'll just say her name,
0:59.8	it's Molly Hemingway, claiming on social media that our own intelligence community is actually more of a threat than Russia.
1:06.0	Okay. So, look, there's a lot of problems here. There's a lot of emotion. There's a lot of claims that are just devoid of evidence or just logic.
1:15.8	And it's, I think it's deeply rooted and an intense resentment that is spreading,
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