Sense and Civility

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Jonah’s even more sleep-deprived than usual on today’s Remnant due to dingo-related difficulties. Thankfully, however, his guest has more than enough rich insights on hand to keep him awake. He’s joined by Alexandra Hudson—writer, academic, and author of the new book, The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves. It’s clear that American society isn’t in a particularly civil state, and there’s plenty of appetite for improvement. But Alexandra thinks that we often fail to grasp what civility really means in the first place. Armed with an esoteric collection of historical references, she and Jonah explore what the distinction is between civility and politeness, how we can bring about a “civility renaissance,” and why civility is foundational to liberal democracy. Break out your bingo cards. Show Notes: - Alexandra’s webpage - Alexandra’s new book, The Soul of Civility - Defining the World: The Extraordinary History of Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary - Video version Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.1	This is Jonah Goldberg hosted the Remnant Podcast.
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1:09.4	We will talk about all of that another time, but she's I'm okay there's all that kind of stuff
1:15.4	instead we're gonna get right to it we have a delightful guest today I get all those grief from people who say I'm always I have an
1:26.2	exciting guest today so I'm trying to find up other superlatives. So I don't want
1:30.6	anyone to think that I'm not excited about this guest. I'm also working on very
1:34.4	little sleep because I was up with the poor dingo. So Alexandra Hudson is an award-winning
1:40.8	writer, an adjunct faculty member at Indiana University's
1:44.1	Lily Family School of Philanthropy and the curator of the newsletter
1:49.0	Civic Renaissance. Her new book is The Soul of Civility, timeless principles to heal society and ourselves.
1:58.0	Alexandra, welcome to the remnant.
2:00.0	Jonah, thank you for having me.
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