{"podcast":{"title":"Uncertain Things","slug":"uncertain-things-1365822","podcast_index_feed_id":1365822,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/55152.rss","website_url":"https://uncertain.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/55152/d5aa3021bd2e0c5c8c26c93af46f588a.jpg","author":"Uncertain Things","episode_count":115,"summary":"Everything is broken. Now what?","last_synced_at":"2026-07-01T06:18:18.631352+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncertain-things-1365822"},"episode":{"title":"Thou Shalt Not Be a Socialist (Ruth Wisse)","slug":"thou-shalt-not-be-a-socialist-ruth-wisse","published_at":"2025-08-12T22:22:52+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncertain-things-1365822/thou-shalt-not-be-a-socialist-ruth-wisse","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncertain-things-1365822","url":"https://uncertain.substack.com/p/ruth-wisse-jews-socialism-power-resentment","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/170659845/85b23a6d94aee7ac23ed6cfdde78bd29.mp3","summary":"It is an extra (((special))) episode on Uncertain Things as Ruth Wisse, senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund and author of Jews and Power , hosts Adaam for Friday afternoon cookies and Talmud. The two discussed the wave of resentment that threatens to consume American culture ( or Annihilism , as Adaam stubbornly calls it ), the problem (or lack thereof) of inequality, the Jewish rejection of Weakness Worship, and what it means to stand witness to evil. On the (((agenda))): -Neocons love assimilation [1:30] -Accents are genocide [9:00] -The idea that disparity is evil is evil [17:00] -Charity and dignity (and pity) [27:00] -Gratitude, resentment, and feminism [34:00] -What’s up with American Jews… plus American liberalism… plus standing witness to evil [48:00] Also: - Adaam and Yuval Levin talk about the nature of liberalism, beauty and conservatism - Howard Jacobson at Tablet Magazine on the death of a tailor Uncertain Things is hosted and produced by Adaam James Levin-Areddy and Vanessa M. Quirk. For more doomsday thoughts, subscribe to: http://uncertain.substack.com. Get full access to Uncertain Things at uncertain.substack.com/subscribe","meta_description":"It is an extra (((special))) episode on Uncertain Things as Ruth Wisse, senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund and author of Jews and Power , hosts Adaam for Fr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3955,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/uncertain-things-1365822/episodes/thou-shalt-not-be-a-socialist-ruth-wisse/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncertain-things-1365822/thou-shalt-not-be-a-socialist-ruth-wisse.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}