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January 12, 2022
A Podcasting Economist-Turned-Israeli Educator Talks about the Need for the Humanities, Israeli Fertility, America’s Spiritual Crisis, and Bible Stories
What podcasts and the Talmud have in common.
Best known as the host of the pioneering EconTalk podcast, and for his efforts to popularize the ideas of the Austrian free-market theorist Friedrich Hayek, Russell Roberts last year became the president of Shalem College, the Jewish state’s first-ever liberal-arts school. In a wide-ranging conversation with Ari Lamm, Roberts explains why Israel’s demographic miracle has everything to do with culture and little to do with policy, how the ideals of economic liberalism complement those of traditional Judaism, what’s Jewish about podcasting, and much else. (Audio, 50 minutes.)
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A Podcasting Economist-Turned-Israeli Educator Talks about the Need for the Humanities, Israeli Fertility, America’s Spiritual Crisis, and Bible Stories
What podcasts and the Talmud have in common.