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Young Heretics

Interview: Lexi O. Hudson, Defender of Civility

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

"Civility" is almost a dirty word these days on both the right and the left. But Lexi Hudson has written a book to defend it, arguing that being civil--being a good fellow citizen--doesn't mean being nice or tiptoeing around disagreements. Civility is always under a certain kind of assault, but that doesn't mean it's hopeless. We discuss pictures of civility in Homer, Ovid, and the Old Testament, as well as high and low trust societies and whether our age is a uniquely uncivil one.

Check out our sponsor, the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/youngheretics/

Read Lexi's Book, The Soul of Civility: https://a.co/d/786NgpZ 

Join Lexi's community, Civic Renaissance: https://www.civic-renaissance.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Young Herritix Conversations. This is the part of the show

0:09.8

where my guests are alive. On Tuesdays I talk to dead guests. On Tuesdays I get to commune with the great

0:17.6

minds of the traditions of Athens and Jerusalem and also of course with you who are I hope alive but by and large right on our

0:27.1

regular Tuesday episodes what we're dealing with is that long history that secret

0:31.2

society that great communion across time that puts us in touch with

0:34.7

great thinkers. But on Fridays I like to talk to people who are currently out and about, engaged

0:40.2

in the process, the work, the effort to live out these traditions in some way, shape or form.

0:46.6

It could be a bunch of different ways that they're doing that.

0:50.0

We've talked to authors, we've talked to people involved in politics, we've talked to

0:54.0

energy experts, there's just a whole bunch of different ways and means that we can go about

0:59.6

living this stuff out and no one person is is not the same as the work that you do

1:07.9

at home you know that we each have I think a role to play in this is a team

1:12.4

sport and St Paul famously says that you know the

1:15.8

the body is composed of many parts and the eye shall not say to the hand that it is not part

1:19.8

of the body because it is not a hand.

1:21.7

So that's all by way of saying if there are other

1:23.9

people you would like to hear from people you'd like me to talk to. My lines are

1:28.4

always open you can go to rejoice evermore dot substack.. To get in touch with me,

1:33.3

writing emails about who you think we should talk with,

1:35.8

what might be a good guest schedule

1:38.6

for the future going forward.

1:40.4

But today I am really delighted to speak with my friend Alexandra Hudson or Lexi Hudson as we know her.

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