{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsimplecast.econtalk.org%2Fepisodes%2Fdavid-deutsch-on-the-pattern-4XHBT_hM","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"David Deutsch on the Pattern","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/4ca709a1-1918-43a4-9035-1176b5aa9f2b/b8c673f8-58e7-4d4a-ab02-f83c2fd463c4/econtalknewbluecover1400.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"A world-class physicist makes a shocking claim: across 2,500 years and every kind of society, there has been a recurring moral exception carved out just for Jews--the idea that hurting Jews is, in some sense, legitimate. Most of the time, this doesn't erupt into pogroms. Instead, it lives as a background permission: a readiness to excuse, minimize, or rationalize hurting Jews when it does occur. Listen as Russ Roberts talks with David Deutsch of Oxford University about what Deutsch calls \"the Pattern\": a persistent, global impulse not primarily to attack Jews, but to justify attacks on Jews--socially, politically, or physically. The stated reasons shift with the era--deicide, moneylending, \"cosmopolitan elites,\" Zionism--but the underlying permission structure remains disturbingly constant. Unsettling, challenging, and clarifying, this conversation may change how you understand antisemitism--and the moral fault lines of our civilization."}