Ep. 54: Liberty or Chaos?

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Are we living through another French Revolution? With the help of the great statesman Edmund Burke, Spencer Klavan examines what made the difference in the 18th century—and what makes the difference now—between justified reform and destructive anarchy.

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0:00.0	The big question that's been on a lot of people's minds lately is,
0:03.8	are we living through another French Revolution?
0:10.7	That's the question we're going to take up today,
0:13.1	Onion Heretics, with one of, I think, the greatest thinkers ever
0:17.0	to walk the halls of British Parliament, Edmund Burke.
0:21.7	Before we talk about the French Revolution, I'm going to talk about the Woke Revolution
0:25.0	and a company that is fighting back against it.
0:27.2	That's the classic learning test or CLT.
0:30.7	These are my pals. They run a standardized test,
0:33.4	which fights back against the Woke testing establishment.
0:36.7	That's the college board, the ACT, right?
0:39.3	These assessments train teachers to teach Woke stuff.
0:42.9	They make it impossible for students to read anything,
0:45.4	but hyperbiased or just bland and meaningless passages.
0:48.8	The CLT is a test that rearranges all of that
0:53.2	by putting students in front of the grates that we read here
0:56.0	on Young Heretics. People are reading Austin and Augustin
0:59.7	and all these folks.
1:00.7	If you know a high school junior or the parents of one,
1:04.6	tell them to check out CLT.
1:06.4	You can currently get a discount using the code Heretics,
1:10.4	H-E-R-E-T-I-C-A-S.
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