E188. Noah Rothman Thinks The Lunatics Are The Ones Left In The Political Arena

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🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Noah Rothman returns to discuss his new book, The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives' War on Fun . He and Bridget discuss the cultural role reversal that he's documenting which is very new and still evolving, how being charitable to the other side doesn't sell anymore and you have to be totally convinced of the righteousness of your views, and why trying to create an intellectual monoculture is the pathway to destruction. They also cover how the rules around sex have become so fraught and complicated that younger generations are just not having sex, how politically we're left with a band of fanatics who doesn't understand how politics works, why SJWs' primary targets are people who agree with them, and how whimsy and irreverance are the only answer to this tone of self-seriousness.

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0:00.0	This is Watkins. Welcome with Bridget Pettasy. I'm Bridget Pettasy, and you are welcome.
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0:47.0	Have you ever heard that story that Napoleon used the Egyptian Sphinx for target practice and shot its nose off?
0:55.0	Or maybe you've heard that a French astrologer named Nostradamus correctly predicted nearly 500 years of human history.
1:04.0	Or maybe someone told you that the legendary blues guitarist Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at a crossroads in Mississippi.
1:15.0	These stories are what I like to call historical myths. Great little tales that may or may not have any basis in historical fact.
1:26.0	On our fake history, we explore these historical myths and try to determine what's fact, what's fiction, and what is such a good story.
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2:09.0	This week, on the podcast, we are very excited to welcome back Noah Rothman.
2:20.0	Noah is the associate editor of Commentary Magazine, a journal of scholarly opinion and analysis that has been in continuous publication since 1945,
2:30.0	and a contributor to MSNBC and NBC News.
2:34.0	Mr. Rothman graduated from Drew University with a degree in Russian Studies and Political Science.
2:40.0	He is the author of Unjust social justice and the unmasking of America, and his newest, which is why he's here to sit down and chat with us,
2:50.0	the rise of the new Puritans fighting back against progressives war on fun.
2:56.0	All right. I'm with Noah Rothman again. Welcome back to Walkins. Welcome. The return.
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