Dr. Edward Watts makes his THIRD appearance on theEWpodcast to talk about his new book, “The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea”.
Dr. Watts is the Chair of the History Department at University of California San Diego. He has previously written “Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny”, “City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria” and more.
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**This episode was recorded on July 26, 2021**
DR. EDWARD WATTS LINKS
Dr. Edward Watts: https://history.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/watts.html
“The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome”: https://amzn.to/3mTQ7Gp
1st appearance on this podcast: https://ericwhte.com/podcast-031-dr-edward-watts-and-is-america-in-a-fall-of-rome-moment/
2nd appearance on this podcast: https://ericwhte.com/podcast-043-dr-edward-watts-and-what-rome-teaches-us-about-political-violence/
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 “The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome”
05:43 The necessary tension between liberal and conservative
09:27 “Everything is bad and only I can fix it”
23:41 Why write this book now?
26:27 Distortions of Roman history and the Fall of Rome
37:00 Defining ‘Decline’
55:00 “There are rules for how problems are solved”
59:26 Closing thoughts