Robert Gordon is an art historian at the University of Arizona. In this episode, Robert explains talks about poverty as it has been expressed in art throughout the ages, and what it all might mean.

You can find out more about Robert Gordon here:

https://music.arizona.edu/people/directory/regordo1/

And he is a link to a lecture he gave for the National Association of Scholars in answer to the question "How Does Western Civilization Contrast with Other Civilizations?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFKf2JJGRSQ