S1E2 with Spencer Klavan and cohost Brad Polumbo on Avatar, Lord of the Rings and common good
What is there to be hopeful for in our politics? And what do "Star Wars" and "Avatar: The Last Airbender" have to do with it?
Watch as Stephen Kent, co-host Brad Polumbo, and guest Spencer Klavan discuss if we're going to rally around a politics of hope.
---- Content of This Episode ----
0:00 Intro
2:30 Meet our guest Spencer Klavan
22:30 "Lord of The Rings" in our discourse
30:04 Is there a "common good?"
33:20 "Avatar: The Last Airbender" riff
35:45 Feedback from viewers
39:50 Reasons to be cheerful
----- Episode Reading List ----
Against the Blackpill (The American Mind)
https://americanmind.org/salvo/against-the-blackpill/
Nickelodeon creates Avatar Studios to create new Avatar, Legend of Korra content (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/24/22297512/avatar-last-airbender-korra-studios-paramount-plus-streaming-netflix
The Flight 93 Essay (Claremont Review of Books)
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/digital/the-flight-93-election/
A critique of the Flight 93 mindset by Conor Friedersdorf (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/an-attack-on-founding-principles-at-the-claremont-institute/499094/
Can Libertarian and Conservatives keep work together? Fusionism explained by Stephanie Slade (Reason)
https://reason.com/2021/02/10/is-there-a-future-for-fusionism/
Government, Lord of the Rings and wielding the Ring of Power (Townhall)
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/rogermckinney/2019/10/15/political-power-is-the-ring-that-should-be-destroyed-n2554744
Rush Limbaugh and generational politics of despair (The Dispatch)
https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/rush-limbaugh-and-the-rights-generational
George Washington and calming the Newburgh Conspiracy
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/george-washington-calms-down-the-newburgh-conspiracy
---- Plugs for Our Guests ---
Subscribe to Young Heretics with Spencer Klavan: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqj2go45P8ase0ISG1iwig
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