i'm not a conservative, but i do increasingly find myself intrigued by some conservative concepts that would have been alien to me. So one view says, wi th perhaps i think i'm being fair to your story, and you correct me from wrong. One of you says that there's something sick at the heart of humanity. Ah, it goes back a long way. It goes back to very nature. A, nothing straight can be made from the crooked timber of humanity. And we're like you say, animals with a and yet we're also aware at of the transcendent and of awe and wonder. That's an inherently tough rhodaho. Certainly that was the theme magocrist
Richard Reinsch, editor of Law and Liberty and the host of the podcast Liberty Law Talk, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Enlightenment. Topics discussed include the search for meaning, the stability of liberalism, the rise of populism, and Solzhenitsyn's indictment of Western values from his Harvard Commencement Address of 1978.