The Herbert Spencer Diavlog | Mark Francis & Will Wilkinson [Free Will]
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Channel: Nonzero · 2018 · News & Politics
01:25 What's so interesting about Herbert Spencer? 16:24 Spencer's misunderstood evolutionary ideas 28:53 Spencer's scientific optimism 39:51 Being a liberal without being an individualist 52:25 Valuing tradition without being a conservative 57:37 What would Spencer say about today's politics? Mark Francis (Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life) and Will Wilkinson (Niskanen Center, Vox, The Fly Bottle) Join the conversation on Bloggingheads.tv: http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/1308 Recorded on October 15, 2007 Subscribe to the Bloggingheads.tv YouTube channel: https://goo.gl/ccLFDY Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bloggingheads Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloggingheads/ Follow our RSS feed: https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/feed?format=audio