On this episode, Elizabeth Bachmann, a Junior Fellow at First Things, interviews Mark Bauerlein about his new book, The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults. Continue Reading »
Robert Jackson joins the podcast to discuss the National Symposium for Classical Education. Continue Reading »
Aaron Kheriaty joins the podcast to discuss his article, “The Other Pandemic: The Lockdown Mental Health Crisis,” and the evolution of the COVID pandemic. Continue Reading »
Bishop Robert Barron joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Eucharist, and the Word On Fire bookstore. Continue Reading »
Philip Hamburger joins the conversation to discuss his new book, Purchasing Submission: Conditions, Power and Freedom. Continue Reading »
David DeSteno joins the conversation to discuss his new book, How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion. Continue Reading »
Stanley Kurtz joins the podcast to discuss recent essay, “Parents Can Save Western Civilization.” Continue Reading »
The other day, I stumbled across a wonderful live recording of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s Tale), a small theater piece he wrote with the Swiss novelist Charles Ferdinand Ramuz at the end of World War I. I was suddenly flooded with memories of the elaborately . . . . Continue Reading »
Heaven,” Jonathan Edwards says in the fifteenth and last of his Charity Sermons, “is a World of Love.” In saying this, however, he did not seem to have in mind what many of us might -immediately hope for or suppose. To be sure, in one of his Miscellanies, asking himself “whether the . . . . Continue Reading »
History, to the modern mind, has a goal and follows the path of progress, so that new becomes identified with better. It was on this basis that, a century ago in Russia, communist belief seized the moment. Typically for the progressive tradition, the word “new” acquired a magical . . . . Continue Reading »
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