Western ideas at their best & why they're under attack - with Eric Cohen

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Eric Cohen is the CEO of Tikvah. He was the founder and remains editor-at-large of the New Atlantis, and he serves as the publisher of Mosaic. Eric has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Commentary, He is the author of In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology. He previously worked for the U.S. President’s Council on Bioethics. Eric's work can be found at: TikvahFund.org The Mosaic essay we discuss in this episode: "The Spirit of Jewish Classical Education", by Eric and Cohen & Mitchell Rocklin https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/history-ideas/2023/02/the-spirit-of-jewish-classical-education/ Column by Tyler Cowen: "Wokeism Has Peaked" https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-18/wokeism-has-peaked-in-america-but-is-still-globally-influential#xj4y7vzkg The New Atlantis https://www.thenewatlantis.com/

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0:00.0	Think about one of the great crises of the West, the collapse of birth rates, right?
0:04.5	Western civilization has basically decided we are not significant enough to pass down into the next generation.
0:11.0	And so here you have a civilization with the most advanced reproductive
0:15.8	technologies we've ever had that is choosing not to reproduce. There's a kind of
0:20.0	tragic irony in that. Here we have a nation with the most sophisticated
0:24.0	antidepressants we've ever had that's more depressed than any civilization
0:27.7	that's ever been. Before we begin today's episode one housekeeping note our next episode we welcome
0:46.1	back to the podcast Josh Roggan from the Washington Post Josh was a big hit
0:50.9	when we had him on on an episode about China over a year ago and we will
0:56.4	be taking listener questions for Josh so please do record a short voice memo if you have a
1:01.8	question for Josh. Keep it to under 30 seconds, send it to
1:06.0	Dan at unlocked.FM. That's Dan at unlocked.fm. The topics we will be hitting with Josh are China. Recent revelations about the lab leak theory
1:16.5	and also developments in Russia, Ukraine. A series of topics he has been prolific about recently
1:21.6	in the pages of the Washington Post.
1:23.2	Now on to today's episode.
1:24.8	What do we mean when we talk about Western civilization?
1:28.1	What is the West? Or what is the West at its best? And why is this current moment some would call it wokeism
1:35.4	but it's not limited to wokeism what is it about this moment that's an attack on
1:40.6	the best of the West it's a conversation I've been having on and off with my
1:44.2	friend Eric Cohn who joins us today. He's the CEO of TICFA, an innovative nonprofit
1:49.7	working on, among other things, educating and developing future leaders, developing them
1:54.5	intellectually for careers in politics and journalism and other areas of public life.
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