Roger Kimball: The Intellectual Life

Socrates in the City

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4.7 • 537 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The esteemed editor of The New Criterion — a monthly review of the arts and intellectual life – and president of Encounter Books, Roger Kimball, and Socrates host Eric Metaxas, sit down for a delightful conversation on the intellectual life, touching on subjects from the inversion of virtue to political correctness to the effects of the sexual revolution on culture to Artificial Intelligence.

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0:00.0	We may have crossed the line recently where people are beginning to wake up.
0:04.4	You know, the Englishman, Lord Dabernion once said that an Englishman's mind works best when it's almost too late.
0:12.1	And I think that may be where we are now here in this country.
0:15.2	You know, there are a lot of absurd things happening.
0:20.4	Maybe we've gotten to the point now where we're kind of rousing ourselves from these...
0:25.6	Or at least have the possibility to rouse ourselves.
0:28.6	Yes.
0:29.6	It's because it really is almost too late. That's the idea.
0:31.6	It is almost too late.
0:35.6	Welcome to another episode of Socrates in the studio.
0:41.0	My guest right now is Roger Kimball.
0:44.8	Roger, welcome.
0:45.8	Thank you, Eric.
0:46.7	It's great to be here.
0:47.7	I hope I've already told folks that you're the editor-in-chief of the new Criterion,
0:52.8	and I suppose the editor-in-chief of the new criterion, and I suppose the editor-in-chief
0:57.3	of Encounter Books?
0:58.9	Publisher.
0:59.7	Publisher.
1:00.3	Yeah, president and publisher of Encounter Books.
1:04.1	Well, I'm going to need to see some identification.
1:06.9	I can't take your word for it.
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