Walter Russell Mead on Innovation, Religion, and the State of the World

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🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Historian and author Walter Russell Mead of Bard College and the Hudson Institute talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about how innovation and religion can help us make sense of the current state of the world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem, and Stanford University's Hoover
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0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
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0:37.8	Today is August 1st, 2023, and my guest is Walter Russell Mead.
0:42.6	He is the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at the
0:47.5	Hudson Institute and the James Clark Chase Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at
0:52.4	Bard College.
0:53.4	He's also the Global View Columnist at the Wall Street Journal, and he co-hosts the
0:57.2	Weekly Tablet News Podcast, What Really Matters.
1:01.4	Walter, welcome to Econ Talk.
1:03.4	Great.
1:04.4	Thanks for having me.
1:05.4	Our conversation for today is going to be based around some essays you've written in
1:09.0	particular one entitled Our Singular Century, and the second is called The A-Bomb, where
1:14.9	the A stands for Abraham.
1:16.8	They're both extremely interesting, and I'm sure we'll bring in some other things as
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