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George Will on the Conservative Sensibility

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🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

George Will talks about his new book, The Conservative Sensibility, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Will argues for a conservative vision that embraces the dynamic nature of life. Topics discussed include the current political landscape, the American founding, James Madison's vision of government vs. Woodrow Wilson's, Friedrich Hayek, and of course, a little baseball.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.

0:08.0

I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

0:12.6

Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find

0:17.6

links and other information related to today's conversation.

0:20.5

We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going

0:24.8

back to 2006.

0:27.0

Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.

0:29.6

We'd love to hear from you.

0:33.8

Today is August 14th, 2019, and my guest is political scientist author and columnist George

0:39.3

Will.

0:40.4

This is his third appearance on econtalk.

0:42.9

The last being in May 2017 discussing Liberty with David Boes and P.J. Errwork.

0:48.4

His latest book is the conservative sensibility, which is our topic for today.

0:52.5

George, welcome back to econtalk.

0:54.1

Do I have to be with you?

0:56.4

Your book is a rather extraordinary work of scholarship, entertainment, its survey of American

1:02.9

history, economic, and cultural history, and of American political thought.

1:08.7

In the early on in the book, you set up a conflict or contrast between what you call the

1:13.7

Madisonian and Wilsonian traditions, and you cast them as the debate which we're still

1:22.2

having in America.

1:24.2

Why is that the right way to think about it?

1:25.9

What do you mean by that?

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