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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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The Power of Macbeth
The idea that understanding laws and morality from what reading about how they behaved makes a lot more sense than studying anything else is sort of silly. The original aristocrats in Europe, the original nobility, these were all former warlords or warriors who were rewarded for slaughtering people with land and power and privilege. So anyway, my point was partly just because I didn't like the snootiness of the question. And then I was like, yeah, let me just flip that even deeper. You know, when you say we have nothing to learn from, you know, from criminals, where do you think the power of Macbeth came from?
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