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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2456 Are Our "Statesmen" Getting Worse?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Johnny Burtka, president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, joins me to discuss the traditional education of a statesman in the Western world, and compare that to what we observe today. Book Discussed: Guest's Link: Sponsors: &

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0:05.0

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0:57.1

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Tom Wood Show.

0:58.8

This is episode 2,456, for heaven's sake, and I am very glad to be joined by Johnny Berka who is

1:05.9

president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and I saw you speak at an

1:12.0

ISI event a year or two ago where I was on a two-person panel with

1:17.0

Dan McCarthy and you gave such a great speech, such interesting remarks about so many different lessons that one might learn

1:26.3

from decent statesman and you have this book gateway to statesmanship selections from

1:30.6

Xenophon to Churchill that just came out this very week and

1:33.8

we're going to talk a little bit about this because of the contrast between

1:37.6

the kind of works we see from some of the ancients like Aristotle and

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