Leonard Grob is professor emeritus of philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
John K. Roth is Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College.
Together they have published a number of books, including Encountering the Stranger (2012), which focuses on Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations; Losing Trust in the World (2017), a protest against torture; and most recently, Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy (Cascade, 2023).
Show Notes
PODCAST LINKS:
Warnings: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666743968/warnings/
SOURCES MENTIONED:
Applebaum, Anne. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.
Buber, Martin. I and Thou.
Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz and After. 3 vols.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov.
Grob, Leonard, and John K. Roth. Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy.
———, eds. Anguished Hope: Holocaust Scholars Confront the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.
Hallie, Philip. In the Eye of the Hurricane: Tales of Good and Evil, Help and Harm.
Levinas, Emmanuel. Otherwise than Being, or, Beyond Essence.
OUTLINE:
(01:39) – Converging on the Holocaust
(11:40) – Dr. Roth’s roundtable 1: Charlotte Delbo, Anne Applebaum, Amanda Gorman
(15:01) – Dr. Roth’s roundtable 2: James Madison, Elie Wiesel, Albert Camus
(17:40) – Dr. Grob’s roundtable: (Plato’s) Socrates, Martin Buber, Charlotte Delbo
(23:29) – The beginnings of a friendship (and a book or two)
(31:45) – The Holocaust and contemporary dangers to American democracy
(35:03) – (Liberal) democracy as a verb, not a noun
(41:23) – Democracy and virtue
(49:44) – Democracy and division
(58:10) – Learning from the Holocaust era
(01:08:27) – MAGA and the 2024 election
(01:13:17) – The hurricane as political metaphor