Baroness Caroline Cox: The Threat to the West's Cultural and Political Heritage
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🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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From the Socrates in the City archives: Baroness Caroline Cox sits in the British House of Lords as a crossbencher and is a frequent contributor to Lords debates on Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Nigeria, and Burma. At this 2011 event in Manhattan, Baroness Cox discusses threats to the West’s cultural and political heritage in the U.K. and abroad.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and welcome to Socrates in the city. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm thrilled to see so many of you here. Usually we only have such a big crowd |
| 0:25.2 | when we have a really great speaker. And tonight I know in advance, Baroness Cox, she's |
| 0:29.5 | never spoken in public before. She's terribly, terribly shy, really painfully shy. And I said, |
| 0:35.6 | look, you're never going to get over it unless you give it a shot. So she said, okay, Eric, I will. And we've been in prayer. And is she here? Yes, she's here. But this is really, it is so, it's very heartening and very encouraging to see so many of you here. I want to thank you for being a part of Socrates in the city. |
| 0:55.0 | As you know, or as I hope you know, Socrates in the city takes its name from |
| 1:00.0 | Socrates, thank you, who said, the unexamined life is not worth living. |
| 1:07.0 | Are you authorized to do that, sir? Are you on the staff? |
| 1:10.0 | Well, then take your hands off the equipment and step back from the vehicle. |
| 1:15.6 | So, Baroness, is that okay with you? |
| 1:18.6 | I don't know who that is. |
| 1:20.6 | I think people are just going to come up and do stuff here. |
| 1:22.6 | I don't know, evidently. |
| 1:23.6 | Maybe somebody will come up and start painting the podium a different color because they don't like brown. Feel free. It's a private club. |
| 1:30.3 | So, anybody else? You want to change the lighting? |
| 1:35.3 | Or maybe take some of the paintings down because they offend you. |
| 1:38.3 | Yeah. Yeah. Six Semper Tyrannists. Take that down. |
| 1:43.3 | The, in any case, Socrates and City asks the big questions because Soxies |
| 1:50.0 | famously said the unexamined life is not worth living. |
| 1:53.0 | And about 11 years ago, a number of friends and I thought it would be fun to have a venue in New York |
| 1:59.0 | City where we asked the big, difficult questions. |
| 2:02.6 | The questions that tend not to get asked in places like New York City, |
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