The Daily Stoic

Adam Hochschild on Our Obligation to the Common Good pt. 2

Dec 3, 2022

55:51

Episode guests

Adam Hochschild

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Understanding the Human Qualities of a Neighbor

01:33

Is Your Father's Generation a Bygone Figure?

01:30

Parents, I'm Just Looking Out for You, but You Don't Know How Shaky the Foundation Is

01:36

Introduction

5min

The Power of Parenting

2min

Parents, I'm Just Looking Out for You, but You Don't Know How Shaky the Foundation Is

2min

You Know, I'm a Writer, but I'd Be Much More Talented in Running an Organization

3min

The Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and 1970s

3min

The Civil Rights Movement - Freedom Summer

4min

Global Warming and Autocracy

2min

Is Your Father's Generation a Bygone Figure?

2min

I'm All for Signaling Virtue, but You Can't Have One Without the Other

2min

10.

Audible - The Home of Storytelling

4min

11.

The Civil Rights Movement's Wife Wrote Strangers in Their Own Land

2min

12.

Understanding the Human Qualities of a Neighbor

2min

13.

Do I Leave and Go Back to a Bubble?

2min

14.

Wilson's Disappointment

4min

15.

White Supremacy in America, That's the Battle of Ideas

2min

16.

Holiday Gifts for Everyone on Etsy

4min

17.

The Trumpiest Period in American Life Before Trump

4min

18.

The History of the Supreme Court

3min

19.

The Supreme Court Dissent

3min

20.

No One Is Fully Irredeemable

2min

21.

The Most Remarkable Thing About Your Father

2min

22.

Making Peace With Your Parent's Death

3min

In the second of a two-part interview, Ryan speaks with one of the great non-fiction writers and historians of our time, Adam Hochschild, about his classic 1986 memoir Half The Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son, the impetus for his latest book American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, and the process that Adam went through to improve his relationship with his father, and more.

Adam Hochschild is an American author, journalist, historian, and lecturer. He has written 11 books, including the highly regarded and influential King Leopold’s Ghost and Bury the Chains. He has written for the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, Granta, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, and The Nation. He has received many awards for his writing, including the Duff Cooper Prize and the Mark Lynton History Award for King Leopold’s Ghost, and the California Book Awards Gold Medal and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for Bury the Chains. Adam graduated from Harvard in 1963, and he holds honorary degrees from Curry College and the University of St. Andrews.