Do You Agree With Me, Though, About the State and the Community?

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Sper sosars: Communities do not have the same coercive power as states. He argues that codification in jewish tradition is codification within a religious community, or would you argue that that should also be done in a wider state? Sper sosARS: Maybe we should talk a little bit about the difference between communities maintaining the social norms and states. There's a lot to unpack there.

Traditions and norms can seem at best out-of-touch and at worst offensive to many a modern mind. But Israeli computer scientist and Talmud scholar Moshe Koppel argues that traditions and norms--if they evolve slowly--create trust, develop our capacity for deferred gratification, and even, in the case of how we prepare cassava, protect us from poisoning. Listen as the author of Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures talks with EconTalk Russ Roberts about tradition, religion, tribalism, resilience, and emergent order.