Conservative Conversations with ISI
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Conservative Conversations with ISI
Sarah Gustafson on Anxiety and Restlessness in Democratic Times, Democratic and Aristocratic Soulcraft, and Harvey Mansfield
December 27, 2022
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Intercollegiate Studies Institute
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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