Is the Civil War a Critical Theory?

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When i first moved to the south, i was like, well, what's this like? I wanted to learn more about the civil warand and so i this has been a metaphor or an analogy for me. It's that lo at's actually not complicated at all, and that it was totally about slavery, right? And so that's a process that i've gone through on a bunch of different things over the ears,. where you go, it's really simple, then you study and it becomes very complex. And then you study it, and it's very simple again. The whole foundation of any of these post modern inspired theories is thatt it problem asizes and deconstructs...

In this episode of Deep Questions we try something a little different: our first guest!

Bestselling author Ryan Holiday joins me to help answer reader questions, as well as more than a few queries from me. We cover a variety of topics, including his life as a writer living on a ranch, how he fosters discipline, the impact of our diminishing reading culture, and why everyone keeps trying to get me to move to Austin.

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