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Socrates in the City

John Zmirak: No Second Amendment, No First

Socrates in the City

Socrates in the City

Society & Culture

4.7537 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The Stream’s John Zmirak and host Eric Metaxas sit down to discuss Zmirak’s new book: No Second Amendment, No FirstNo Second Amendment, No First is nothing less an urgent call for moral clarity, and a full-throated reminder of what is at stake in the war for our nation’s soul.

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0:00.0

Folks, welcome to Socrates in the studio.

0:05.0

This is the studio.

0:07.0

Today we have kind of an interesting Socrates in the studio session.

0:14.0

Because it's with someone with whom I've had many conversations,

0:19.0

but never in the Socrates format. That person is this man, John Smirak. John Smirak, welcome to Socrates in the studio. Thank you, Eric. I really appreciate it. And I like the fact that it's being videotaped. It's not live, so you can... It's not alive.

0:37.7

You can edit things out.

0:38.8

I don't need to wear that shock.

0:39.9

So we can curse like Red Fox.

0:41.0

I don't have to wear that shock collar.

0:42.6

Right.

0:43.1

Yeah.

0:43.7

No, so we've known each other for, since college.

0:51.3

And I've interviewed you many, many times,

0:54.5

but this is different.

0:56.8

This is Socrates in the city.

0:58.8

It's a different brand.

1:00.6

It's a different thing.

1:01.5

And you have come out.

1:03.7

You do a lot of writing,

1:05.0

but today you come here as the author of what I know to be an important book on a very important subject

1:18.6

in the interest of full disclosure.

1:21.6

I wrote the forward to the book because it seems to me such an important subject.

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