The Lost Art of Taking the Piss with Richard Dawkins

与理查德·道金斯探讨放肆之术的失落艺术

Old School with Shilo Brooks

2025-12-18

41 分钟
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Richard Dawkins is best known as a formidable evolutionary biologist and biting critic of religion. But when he wants a break from polemics and proofs, he turns to P.G. Wodehouse for a belly laugh.  Wodehouse’s satire skewered British aristocrats, Hollywood phonies, and self-important moralists with surgical precision. In this episode, Shilo Brooks sits down with Dawkins to find out why the British humorist remains one of the sharpest writers in the English language. The conversation ranges from Wodehouse’s outrageous similes and linguistic brilliance to his internment by the Nazis during World War II and to a larger question: why has humor been evacuated from modern intellectual life? Old School is proudly brought to you by the Jack Miller Center. If you believe in the importance of civic education and want to help prepare the next generation to carry on our democracy, join us at JackMillerCenter.org.Become a paid subscriber to The Free Press today to enjoy exclusive bonus episodes and reduced ads. Click here to subscribe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • I'm Shiloh Brooks.

  • I'm a professor and CEO, and I believe reading good books makes us better men.

  • Today, I'm talking with Richard Dawkins.

  • Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist,

  • former Oxford professor and author of several best-selling books,

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  • Uncle Fred in Springtime, published in 1939, is a favorite of Professor Dawkins' and its author,

  • the iconic writer, PG Wodehouse, changed his life.