A Church for a World in Crisis

by Mark Bauerlein

Barry Harvey joins the podcast to discuss his recently revised book, Baptists and the Catholic Tradition: Reimagining the Church's Witness in the Modern World. Continue Reading »

13 Jun 2022 0

Michael Lewis on the Architecture of Repair

by R. R. Reno

Michael Lewis join the podcast to discuss the late Christopher Alexander's work of attuning architecture to practical human needs. Continue Reading »

26 May 2022 0

Converting Modernity

by Mark Bauerlein

In this episode, George Weigel discusses his latest book, The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform. Continue Reading »

21 Oct 2019 0

More Manent

by Carl Scott

From the City Journal, this time, a full essay, with a title that says it all “City, Empire, Church, Nation.”    Here’s a taste: During the premodern era, competing political forms—the city, the empire, and the Church—checked one another, so it was necessary to . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Aug 2012 0

Carl’s Rock Songbook #52: Rock Recycle-ment Explained

by Carl Scott

This is the conclusion of the long series of Songbook posts kicked off by my simple observation that many bands championed as representative of new music , such as Crystal Castles, really aren’t . While many themes have been touched upon, overall, Songbook posts #36-51 have been about 1) . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Jun 2012 0

The Marx-Shaped Void: Bernard Yack on Alasdair MacIntyre and Monolithic Modernity

by Carl Scott

From a book review highlighted by our friends at First Thoughts: “Marxists can account for the singular, closed character of modern society by invoking Marx’s theory of historical materialism. As we produce, so we are. Our families, our friendships, our associations, our imagination, . . . . Continue Reading »

18 Jan 2012 0

Carl’s Rock Songbook #30: The Byrds, “Why?”

by Carl Scott

It didn’t become a hit, but this version does contain one of the band’s better guitar solos, and what matters more for our purposes, anti-oligarchic lyrics. (Read my long post below to see what I mean by oligarchic.) Here’s how it starts: You keep sayin’ no to her, Ever since . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2011 0

Carl’s Rock Songbook #29: Cary Grant Did Acid

by Carl Scott

Okay, here’s a shorter way, for those of you who haven’t the patience for my full cinemascopic link-littered prose, to get at what I mean by Intermediate Modernity In Book VIII Republic terms, intermediate-modernity was the era of the self-repressing Oligarchic Soul, and “the . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Nov 2011 0

Carl’s Rock Songbook #28: Intermediate Modernity

by Carl Scott

Here’s the basic schema I laid out in #26 : 1) quasi-modernity –approximately 1776 to 1918 2) intermediate modernity –approximately 1919 to 1965 3) full modernity –approximately 1966 to the present. Now, for some flesh upon these analytic bones. Everyone knows WWI and the 20s . . . . Continue Reading »

23 Nov 2011 0

Carl’s Rock Songbook #26: The Three Stages of Modernity

by Carl Scott

The Songbook inevitably has to analyze modernity, precisely because it is interested more in what rock reveals about our overall sociological and spiritual situation than it is in rock itself.  So what follows are two organizing posts concerning this.  Here, I’ll quickly lay out my . . . . Continue Reading »

19 Nov 2011 0