134. History Wars
Aug 18, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 12Ep. 5
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Episode description
Is history under threat?
Increasingly, the modern, individualistic global West is coming to see history as a discipline that's irrelevant, harmful, and divisive.
Some are worried that we're becoming increasingly disconnected from a broader story.
Can the past help us navigate our modern world? Or is it better if we let it fade into a "dark age"?
- (00:11) - What do you call a collective of historians?
- (05:40) - Why does history matter?
- (08:12) - What makes a good historian?
- (10:49) - Historical culture wars
- (14:32) - An Ahistoric Age
- (16:44) - Is history irrelevant?
- (18:59) - Historical ignorance
- (24:46) - Recovering facts from framing
- (30:11) - Looking back but moving forward
- (35:27) - Priests of History
- (37:42) - Sarah encounters rational faith
- (46:10) - The perks of Biblical meditation
- (48:48) - Make tradition cool again
- (49:38) - 5 Minute Jesus
- (57:09) - Why take history seriously in 2024?
- (01:01:21) - The good guys of history's bad Empires
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