The Spartan Lifestyle

The Ricochet Podcast

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In a world gone mad, there's something comforting about turning attention to crazier days that somebody else had to suffer through. TikTok informs us that the boys are thinking an awful lot about Rome, we grownups are joined by Hillsdale College's Paul Rahe to learn about proxy war, ancient and modern. He helps Peter, James and Rob connect the dots between Sparta's success in bleeding the Athenians in Sicily to the machinations of the global superpowers in the 20th Century on to today. Listen in to understand how a foreign policy that fails to take Thucydides into account is doomed. (Be sure to preorder your copy of Dr. Rahe's Sparta's Sicilian Proxy War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta.)

Also enjoy some good ole fashioned rants about the state of emergency on our border; and which Monty Python star James got to gab with in London.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm losing your voice for some reason.
0:03.7	Well, I've been trying to lose his voice for a long time.
0:06.5	Congratulations.
0:08.5	Ask not what your country can do for you.
0:13.5	Ask what you can do for your country.
0:16.5	Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
0:21.5	Read my lips.
0:26.5	It's the Ricochet Podcast with Peter Robinson and Rob Long.
0:29.5	I'm James Lylex and today we talk to Paul Ray about Sparta.
0:33.0	What was the last time you thought about Sparta?
0:35.0	Well, you're going to now because let's have ourselves a podcast.
0:43.0	The border is secure.
0:44.0	Frankly, Mr. Norraster, I don't care what you thinks it
0:46.0	and in your safe office are removed from everybody playing with some numbers.
0:49.0	Go and talk to people.
0:50.5	The answer is to have real borders.
0:52.5	The answer is to have the role of law.
0:54.0	And once you establish that, then you look into what needs to be done in our immigration system.
0:59.5	Welcome, everybody.
1:00.5	This is the Ricochet Podcast, number 659.
1:04.5	Oh, that's a lot of podcasts.
1:06.5	Have you been there from the start?
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