{"podcast":{"title":"Quintus Curtius","slug":"quintus-curtius-216861","podcast_index_feed_id":216861,"rss_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:187242123/sounds.rss","website_url":"http://www.qcurtius.com","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000291272528-zxsf1s-original.jpg","author":"Quintus Curtius","episode_count":316,"summary":"Quintus Curtius is an attorney, writer, translato…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-05T18:18:12.866629+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/quintus-curtius-216861"},"episode":{"title":"You Have No Right To Turn Away","slug":"you-have-no-right-to-turn-away","published_at":"2025-11-15T19:52:46+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/quintus-curtius-216861/you-have-no-right-to-turn-away","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/quintus-curtius-216861","url":"https://soundcloud.com/quintus-curtius-536484035/you-have-no-right-to-turn-away","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2213213609-quintus-curtius-536484035-you-have-no-right-to-turn-away.mp3","summary":"In an 1842 letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle chastised Emerson, saying, \"A man has no right to say to his generation, turning away from it, 'Be Damned!' It is the whole past and the whole future, this same cotton-spinning, dollar-hunting, canting and shrieking, very wretched generation of ours. Come back into it, I tell you.\" What did he mean by this? And what importance does Carlyle's admonition have for us today? We discuss.","meta_description":"In an 1842 letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle chastised Emerson, saying, \"A man has no right to say to his generation, turn…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":467,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/quintus-curtius-216861/episodes/you-have-no-right-to-turn-away/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/quintus-curtius-216861/you-have-no-right-to-turn-away.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}