Ep. 37: Defying the Law

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

When is civil disobedience justified? It's a question that has loomed over the past year and continues to haunt us. With lockdowns crushing businesses and riots terrorizing the streets, Spencer Klavan begins a three-part series to bring the great wisdom of the West to bear on this modern crisis. In this episode of "Young Heretics" he covers Sophocles' "Antigone" and the philosophy of nonviolent civil disobedience.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Young Heretics.
0:01.5	Today, my question for you is,
0:03.9	what in the heck is going on?
0:07.2	What in the world is going on?
0:11.6	Everything is going insane.
0:12.6	This is the first episode that I've recorded
0:16.2	after what happened on January 6th in the Capitol.
0:19.2	And we're going to get to that.
0:20.3	But just so you know where this is situated in time,
0:23.6	that shortly after what happened on the 6th,
0:27.6	which is that there was a protest at the Capitol
0:31.3	to contest the results of the election.
0:33.6	It got out of hand, people stormed into the Capitol.
0:35.8	There was a riot.
0:36.9	It was fatal.
0:37.8	It was a really messy, embarrassing, shocking event.
0:43.8	And there's been a lot of fallout from it,
0:46.0	both in terms of leftist authoritarianism
0:48.8	and conservative infighting.
0:51.8	And just all sorts of madness that is sort of like feels
0:55.4	like snowballing out of some of the trends that, honestly,
0:58.7	we've been tracking a ton on this show.
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