Richard Reinsch on the Enlightenment, Tradition, and Populism

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🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Richard Reinsch, editor of Law and Liberty and the host of the podcast Liberty Law Talk, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Enlightenment. Topics discussed include the search for meaning, the stability of liberalism, the rise of populism, and Solzhenitsyn's indictment of Western values from his Harvard Commencement Address of 1978.

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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.
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0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
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0:33.6	Today's June 5, 2018, and my guest is Richard Reinch, the second, he is the founding editor
0:39.4	of the website, Law and Liberty, and the host of the podcast, Liberty Law Talk.
0:45.2	Law and Liberty and Liberty Law Talk are projects of Liberty Fund, Foundation of an Indian
0:50.4	apolis, and of which econ talk is supported by through the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:56.8	So Richard and I are cousins in some sense, or something, I don't know.
1:03.3	Talk about, before we get to, well, our topic for today is a recent essay of yours, Richard,
1:08.6	where you reviewed Jonah Goldberg's book, The Suicide of the West, which Jonah was a guest
1:14.0	recently on econ talk to talk about the book.
1:16.2	And I thought that essay might make a useful jumping off point for a conversation on the
1:19.7	enlightenment, the state of America, the state of Liberty.
1:24.2	But I want to firstly, you tell our audience a little bit about Law and Liberty, the website,
1:30.0	and the podcast that you host, Liberty Law Talk.
1:32.4	Well, thanks for us for having me on econ talk.
1:36.2	You are the standard in terms of serious interview formats online.
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