Is America Rome? 3 Historians Debate Decline, Faith & Agency | Weds LIVE Ep.57

China's central bank just bought more gold in a single month than it has in nearly three years — its 22nd consecutive month of buying, at record prices. They're not doing it because gold is cheap. They're doing it because they've made a decision about what the next hundred years looks like. Support the show and shave with a company that doesn't hate you: https://www.jeremysrazors.com/ Do we act like a civilization that plans to be here in twenty years? Or are we living through our own version of Rome's slow fade? Jeremy Boreing sits down with three guests who take that question seriously: historian Jeremy Ryan Slate (host of The Roman Pattern), Oxford classicist Spencer Klavan (host of Young Heretics, author of "How to Save the West"), and Daily Wire columnist Stephen Kent (co-founder of Geeky Stoics, author of the upcoming "Great Escape"). Was Rome saved by Christianity, or by Constantine's gold standard? Is Stoicism a ladder toward meaning or a ceiling under it? And is Western decline a cycle we're doomed to ride out, or a choice we can still make differently? WATCH #1 Fantasy Show "The Pendragon Cycle" HERE: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0HFH7J5N3 00:00 Cold Open: China's Gold Buying Spree 3:13 Guest Introductions 4:11 Re-Enchantment of the West 9:34 Numbers, AI & Technology's Limits 22:01 Competence, Rome & the Frontier Spirit 44:48 Purpose, Mayflower & Autocracy Debate 59:35 Rome's Collapse: The Roman Pattern 1:17:18 Social Media, Screens & Spiritual Hunger 1:58:00 What Are We Actually Fighting For? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices