Sarah Gustafson on Anxiety and Restlessness in Democratic Times, Democratic and Aristocratic Soulcraft, and Harvey Mansfield

In This Episode:

• Sarah Gustafson joins the podcast to discuss the theme of her course at Harvard University, “Anxiety and Restlessness in Democratic Times”
• how America’s “mental health crisis” is driven by the quality of American souls and affected by the American regime
• the legacy of Harvey Mansfield as a scholar, public political philosopher, and intellectual giant at Harvard

Texts Mentioned:

• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• Manliness by Harvey Mansfield
• Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton
• Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Confessions by Augustine of Hippo
• Republic by Plato
• City of God: Against the Pagans by Augustine of Hippo
• Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
• Politics by Aristotle
• Leisure, the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
• Pensees by Blaise Pascal
• Lost in Thought by Zena Hitz
• The Emperor’s Club movie

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