"The narrative that old books are worthless are designed to keep you from noticing that they are not." Spencer Klavan, author of "How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for Five Modern Crises" discusses the West: why it's so important to preserve it, how its great ideas can help us today, and the limits of science in addressing modern problems.

Spencer Klavan received his PhD in Classics from Oxford and is Associate Editor of the Claremont Review of Books and Features Editor at the American Mind.

More on Dr. Klavan:

His podcast, Young Heretics, https://youngheretics.com/

"Hey hey ho ho Western Civ has got to go," https://intellectualtakeout.org/2019/06/hey-hey-ho-ho-western-civ-has-got-to-go/

Spencer on C.S. Lewis's science fiction novel "That Hideous Strength," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdutZEHonLc

More on Plato's Timaeus, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-timaeus/#:~:text=In%20the%20Timaeus%20Plato%20presents,%2C%20purposive%2C%20and%20beneficent%20agency.

More on Lucretius, a prominent Epicurean philosopher: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lucretius/

More on Stoicism, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/

C.S. Lewis's The Discarded Image, https://portalconservador.com/livros/C-S-Lewis-The-Discarded-Image.pdf