Historian and friend of The Remnant Allen Guelzo has taken a breather from battling for the soul of the West to argue with Jonah Goldberg about the American founding, Edmund Burke, and—horror of horrors—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Join Jonah and Dr. Guelzo as they explore Western civilization, barbarism, tradition, Marxism as romanticism, the Enlightenment, Locke, Lincoln, the great-man theory of history, and the fundamental cause of the Civil War.

Show Notes:
—The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition Vol. 2
—Previous Remnant with Allen Guelzo
—John Courtney Murray: “The Return to Tribalism”
—Georgios Varouxakis: The West: The History of an Idea
—Secretary Marco Rubio delivers remarks to the Munich Security Conference
—Jonah’s book: Suicide of the West
—Walter Russell Mead: “The Enduring Impact of the Abrahamic Tradition”
—The Lost History of Liberalism
—Kristol: “The American Revolution as Successful Revolution”
—Barbara Tuchman: A Distant Mirror

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Handed Down Through the Ages | Interview: Allen Guelzo