Ep. 95: Chivalry's Not Dead

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Headlines across America have been unanimously proclaiming the death of chivalry for decades—10 out of 10 tastemakers agree, it's sexist, hippocrytical, and probably somehow racist to aspire to manly excellence. So why won't chivalry stay dead? Using the biography of England's greatest knight, William Marshal, Spencer Klavan uncovers the true meaning of chivalry, and its enduring importance for today.

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0:00.0	So, recently I was messing around on a little website called Google.com.
0:05.2	Maybe you've heard of it, www.google.com.
0:08.8	Pretty obscure search engine.
0:11.0	And I came across a remarkable page of results.
0:15.2	This is the first page of results from a Google search.
0:17.8	Let me just read to you a list of headlines from Google.
0:23.0	Headline number one, chivalry isn't dead, but it should be in the Washington Post.
0:29.4	Number two, chivalry isn't dead, but it should be from the daily Californian.
0:35.5	Number three, no chivalry is not dead, but it's about time it was.
0:42.2	Number four, chivalry isn't dead at least, not totally, from men's health.
0:48.2	Number five, chivalry isn't dead, but it should be from the thought catalog.
0:54.0	Number six, chivalry isn't dead, but it should be from Troah.
0:58.9	And number seven, this one is original, it's slightly different.
1:01.6	Chivalry isn't dead, dot, dot, dot, but it should be question mark.
1:08.2	I'm sensing a trend here.
1:10.4	Let's discuss.
1:12.4	Okay, very journalism, much edgy.
1:18.9	So wow, this is an amazing page of results that I've just read to you from Google.
1:26.2	That's like, I think it was six or seven articles all with the exact same headline.
1:31.7	Many of them pegged to the same news hooks.
1:33.4	A lot of them were about Brett Kavanaugh and his appointment to the Supreme Court and so
1:37.3	on.
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