The Conspiracy of Old Books

"The narrative that old books are worthless is designed to keep you from discovering that they are not." Spencer Klavan, author of How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for Five Modern Crises discusses the West: why it's so important to preserve it, how its greatest ideas can still help us today, and the limits of science in addressing modern problems.

Spencer Klavan received his PhD in Classics from Oxford and is Associate Editor of the Claremont Review of Books and Features Editor at the American Mind.

• His book, How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for Five Modern Crises 
• His podcast, Young Heretics 
• "Hey hey ho ho Western Civ has got to go" 
• Spencer on C.S. Lewis's science fiction novel "That Hideous Strength 
• More on Plato's Timaeus 
• More on Lucretius, a prominent Epicurean philosopher More on Stoicism 
• C.S. Lewis's The Discarded Image 
• Wordsworth's Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood



Annika Nordquist is the Communications Coordinator of Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and host of the Program’s podcast, Madison’s Notes.