When in Rome

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Jonah’s unwashed historical nerdery is usually unparalleled, but on today’s Remnant, he may finally have met his match. His guest? Ancient historian Bret Devereaux, who joins to discuss all things Roman. With topics including war and peace, political philosophy, and the cruelty of Spartan society, their conversation is sure to eliminate any misguided nostalgia you may have for the past. Show Notes: - Bret’s pedantic blog - Bret talks Orc battle tactics on that niche legal podcast - Bret on Ancient Greece and Rome - Bret makes a correction on social conservatism - Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined - Azar Gat’s War in Human Civilization Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	위
0:09.5	Hi
0:16.9	Please have your attention
0:27.6	You these are listeners this is Jonah Goldberg. Host of the remnant podcast brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media
0:31.8	If I send a little frazzle that's only because I'm frazzle
0:36.1	I
0:37.1	We had some technological difficulties. I had to spend large sums of filthy looker on getting cars that aren't worth keeping fixed this morning
0:45.2	and we're getting a late start.
0:47.7	So it's all okay,
0:49.3	because I'm extremely excited about today's guest
0:51.7	who might on a strict accounting from Cooper's in the library
0:55.9	and outscore me on NerdPoints.
1:01.2	And I will let the judges decide that.
1:03.9	We don't wanna work the refs,
1:05.6	but his name is Brett DeVero.
1:07.9	First time guest, he's an ancient
1:09.7	and military historian who currently teaches
1:12.2	at the Visiting Lecture in the Department of History
1:14.7	at UNC Chapel Hill.
1:16.8	And he is a PhD in ancient history.
1:18.4	He has a fantastically weird blog,
1:20.7	which is kinda how he runs up the Nerdpoints
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