Ep. 2232 When Civilizations Hate Themselves
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Benedict Beckeld joins me to discuss a phenomenon -- disproportionate self-criticism, even hatred -- that we see creeping into civilizations when certain conditions are met.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Wood Show, episode 2232. |
| 0:03.2 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.8 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here. |
| 0:11.4 | The Tom Wood Show. |
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| 0:29.5 | screwed up America and the history of the conservative |
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| 0:38.2 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:39.4 | I'm very glad to be joined today by Benedict Beckled, |
| 0:42.9 | who holds a PhD in philosophy and classical philology |
| 0:46.0 | from the University of Heidelberg, |
| 0:47.9 | and he's the author of a very interesting new book |
| 0:50.6 | from Cornell University Press called Western Self-Contempt, |
| 0:55.6 | and let's get into those subtitles. |
| 0:57.3 | First of all, welcome, Benedict. |
| 0:58.7 | Thank you very much. |
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