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Honestly with Bari Weiss

American Decline Is a Choice. Let's Not Choose It.

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

Society & Culture, News

4.67.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Between the catastrophic American withdrawal from Afghanistan, an endless pandemic, a broken education system, and competent leaders nowhere in sight, it can feel like America is in a constant state of meltdown. On today's episode, renowned historian Niall Ferguson answers the big questions: how did we get here? Is American decline inevitable? And if not, what can be done to renew the culture and the country? Niall is the author of nearly 20 books. His latest is: "Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Barry Weiss and this is honestly. I generally consider myself an optimist, but even I watching

0:38.9

the news over the past few weeks, but really over the past year and a half or if you want to go further

0:44.6

back than that the past four or five years I've been struck with a sense of

0:48.9

dread and I suspect if you're listening to this, you might be feeling that way too.

0:54.0

Pick your poison. It would be the lies told about COVID and the horribly confusing unfolding response to the virus.

1:02.0

It could be about the lies that we were told about

1:04.2

the war in Afghanistan and the dishonorable way that we have withdrawn from that

1:08.1

country. Or maybe you're really upset about the insane identity politics at home.

1:14.0

What it is for me, it's not so much the specific news event

1:17.6

as it is the unshakable feeling I have that we are rudderless, that no one is in the driver's seat, that we're in a kind of free fall as a country and that there's no adult yelling stop enough, and giving us a plan, a blueprint for how we can avoid decline.

1:37.6

How did we end up in this place?

1:40.2

Why is it that so many smart people I know tell me that American decline is not just a possibility,

1:47.0

but that it's inevitable?

1:49.0

And why have the people in charge of this country so thoroughly lost the plot?

1:55.6

That is the subject of my guest's latest book.

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