Love on the Streets of LA

by Mark Bauerlein

Gregory Boyle joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness.  Continue Reading »

3 Mar 2022 0

Love Your Enemies

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Arthur Brooks on his latest book, Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from Our Culture of Contempt. Continue Reading »

17 May 2019 0

Love Is Barefoot Philosophy

by Raymond Hain

Plato’s Bedroom succeeds by starting outside of religion, by unsettling all of us, showing us why our erotic lives are so important and problematic, so beautiful and at the same time potentially destructive, why love and death are never far from one another. Continue Reading »

23 Aug 2016 0

The Lady, Or the Lobster?

by Eve Tushnet

A new romantic comedy brutally satirizes our dictatorship of eros.

31 May 2016 0

Don't Pray?

by Fr. Dominic Bouck

Another heartbreaking mass shooting happened late Thursday evening, in Lafayette, Louisiana. As of now it appears two victims have died, and another nine are injured. The gunman also killed himself.Numerous calls for prayer have been issued, including from the governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal. . . . . Continue Reading »

24 Jul 2015 0

Love Flowers

by Hopewell Rogers

Long before we learned to love, we learned to lose; this is an education the world offers free of charge. As children, we first mourned the roses in October, the neighbor’s night-blooming cactus when we left for school, the rotting tree wrung out by lightning. (Once, at four, I stooped down to . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Apr 2015 0

A Protestant's Passion for the Virtues of Thomas

by Carl R. Trueman

Thomas Aquinas's careful distinctions can help clarify the precise nature of recent moral changes. Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2015 0

Diogenes and the Delphic Oracle

by Dale M. Coulter

The first century orator Dio Chrysostom narrates a conversation between the famous Cynic Diogenes and a pilgrim on his way to visit the oracle at Delphi. Delayed in his journey because of a runaway slave, the pilgrim runs into Diogenes who then engages him in a lengthy discussion that focuses on the . . . . Continue Reading »

8 Jul 2014 0

Regressive Studies

by Kate Pitrone

One of my astute sons has been trying to persuade me that the current idea of progress is actually regress; we seem to moving away from civilized behavior to get back to our roots or something, forgetting the long slog of mankind away from them to gain something better and cleaner for human . . . . Continue Reading »

20 May 2013 0

Carl’s Rock Songbook #73: The Beatles, “All You Need Is Love”

by Carl Scott

Musically, not that impressive, an instance of the Beatles’ rock-meets-music-hall mode, but winsome enough if you don’t listen to it often. It’s fun, and it knows it’s sing-song-y. Irony-hounds might even ask whether that hints at some kind of reversal being the true message. But, no, the . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Dec 2012 0