Joel Bowman and Addison Wiggin discuss The Idea of America

Time stamps - A rough guide...

(00:50) - Intro
(01:30) - Addison’s intro...
(02:50) - Omicron and the wrong way to learn the Greek alphabet
(03:50) - Morris, Alive - A novel investigation into the “Idea of America”
(04:50) - All fiction is, in the end, autobiographical - Jorge Luis Borges
(05:50) - Why it has become fashionable to denigrate America
(08:05) - A look inside American culture... from an outsider’s perspective
(10:20) - America as the home of the individual
(11:20) - From Walt Whitman to Bob Dylan, a legacy of literary independence
(12:20) - The uniqueness of the American project
(16:20) - Clear and Present Danger: A look at the threats to American culture
(19:50) - Why literature? Why draw the line in the sand here?
(24:20) - What’s wrong with Marxism anyway?
(31:35) - The second coming of Neo-Wilsonian progressivism
(37:20) - Progressivism through the 20th Century... and what’s next
(39:20) - Breaking out of the echo chamber
(47:50) - END

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