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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.**This episode was recorded on July 26, 2021**DR. EDWARD WATTS LINKSDr. Edward Watts: https://history.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/watts.html“The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome”: https://amzn.to/3mTQ7Gp1st 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/theEWpodcasthttps://ericwhte.com/podcast-053-dr-edward-watts-and-the-eternal-decline-and-fall-of-rome/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw27qaF6r_XdQrzREV21QSATwitter: https://twitter.com/ericwhteInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/eric.whte/TIMESTAMPS00:00 “The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome”05:43 The necessary tension between liberal and conservative09:27 “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 Rome37:00 Defining ‘Decline’55:00 “There are rules for how problems are solved”59:26 Closing thoughts
