Claudia Hauer on War, Education, and Strategic Humanism

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🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Claudia Hauer of St. John's College and the Air Force Academy talks about her book Strategic Humanism with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Topics discussed include war, rage, terrorism, and what a modern warrior might learn from Homer.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
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0:18.6	other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.2	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.2	Today is May 28th, 2021, and my guest is Claudia Howard of St. John's College and the Air Force
0:42.6	Academy.
0:43.6	We're going to be talking about war, terror, rage, technology, leadership, building on her
0:47.9	recent book, Strategic Humanism, Lessons on Leadership from the Ancient Greeks.
0:52.9	Claudia, welcome to econtalk.
0:55.1	Thank you, Russ.
0:56.1	It's a pleasure to be here.
0:57.1	I want to start our conversation with the Iliad, which is where you begin the book after
1:05.4	an introductory chapter that we're going to come back to.
1:09.7	Now the Iliad, I'm a big fan of the Odyssey by Homer.
1:14.3	I have not read the Iliad, shame on me, but on the surface, it doesn't seem worth reading.
1:21.3	It's kind of a blood-soaked epic, a lot of killing, a lot of brutal death, described
1:30.2	in detail.
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