Roosevelt Montás on Rescuing Socrates

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🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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How do books change our lives? Educator and author Roosevelt Montás of Columbia University talks about his book Rescuing Socrates with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Drawing on his own educational and life journey, Montás shows how great books don't just teach us stuff--they get inside us and make us who we are.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is March 10th, 2022.
0:39.6	My guest is educator and author, Roosevelt Montas of Columbia University, where he is senior
0:44.9	lecturer in American Studies in English and the former director of Columbia's Center for
0:49.5	the Corps curriculum between 2008 and 2018.
0:53.4	He is the author of Great Title.
0:56.2	The author of Rescuing Socrates, How the Great Books Change My Life and Why They Matter
1:01.6	For A New Generation, which is our subject for today.
1:04.6	Roosevelt, Welcome to Econ Talk.
1:06.0	Thank you.
1:07.0	It's great to be here, Russ.
1:08.0	Now, I want to say I love this book.
1:10.5	It's a fantastic book.
1:12.5	In many ways, it's the combination of a number of Econ Talk episodes in recent years, as
1:17.9	well as capture my own journey to become the president of Israel's only liberal arts
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