Politics of Eden

by Mark Bauerlein

Nils A. Haug joins the podcast to discuss his book Politics, Law, and Disorder in the Garden of Eden. Continue Reading »

28 Dec 2023 0

Freedom and Conservatism

by Mark Bauerlein

R. R. Reno joins the podcast to discuss his recent Public Square article “Free and Conservative.” Continue Reading »

31 Oct 2023 0

Yoram Hazony on National Conservatism

by Mark Bauerlein

On this episode, Yoram Hazony joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Conservatism: A Rediscovery. Continue Reading »

19 Dec 2022 0

Why Are We Free to Worship?

by Mark Bauerlein

On this episode, Vincent Phillip Muñoz joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss his new book, Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses. Continue Reading »

15 Dec 2022 0

American Power

by Mark Bauerlein

Lawrence Mead discusses his recent book, Burdens of Freedom: Cultural Difference and American Power. Continue Reading »

7 Nov 2019 0

The Whig Narrative and American Christianity

by James R. Rogers

All Americans are Whigs, distinguished only by their more-liberal or more-conservative Whiggery. Continue Reading »

20 Sep 2016 0

The Language of Love

by Carl R. Trueman

The politicizing of the language of love is confusing and lethal for freedom. Continue Reading »

24 May 2016 0

“For Freedom Set Free”

by Bianca Czaderna

As I took the plane to South Bend for this Fall's Center for Ethics and Culture conference, I wondered how exactly “freedom” would be spoken of.

7 Dec 2015 0

Freedom Is . . . a Sexual Ponzi Scheme?

by Carl R. Trueman

The Washington Post has excelled even its own exacting standards for an uncritical and intellectually bland approach to contemporary moral nonsense. Continue Reading »

2 Jun 2015 0

If There’s No God, Are Humans Equal?

by Christopher Kaczor

In Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, Danielle Allen provides an informative, line-by-line, sometimes word-by-word, philosophical interpretation of the founders’ document. Allen offers the case that the Declaration of Independence is a syllogism for political equality, rather than a manifesto of unlinked assertions. “Premise 1,” she writes:  Continue Reading »

7 Jan 2015 0