Public Life

The Game of Nonsense

Elizabeth Sewell’s classic study of Lewis Carroll, “The Field of Nonsense,” sheds light on the allure of baseball. Continue Reading »

8 Apr 2022

Metaxas: Atheism Is Dead

by Mark Bauerlein

Eric Metaxas joins the podcast to discuss his book, Is Atheism Dead? Continue Reading »

7 Apr 2022

Seminary Faithfulness

by Jonathan L. Master

It will always seem easier to leave the battles to the next generation. But the ministers we train today are the ones who will be on the front lines tomorrow. Continue Reading »

7 Apr 2022

Algis Valiunas on Leopardi

by R. R. Reno

Algis Valiunas joins the podcast to discuss the brilliant and short life of Giacomo Leopardi, a poet still widely ignored in English-speaking circles. Continue Reading »

6 Apr 2022

Once one surrenders to hatred, ideological besottedness, jealousy, fear of the present, or despair about the future, the door is open for the Great Tempter to work his wicked ways through human weakness. Continue Reading »

6 Apr 2022

How the Person Became a Self

by Ryan T. Anderson

In Strange New World, Trueman uncovers and describes the underlying social and intellectual forces that explain why his grandfather would have rejected sexual reassignment without a second thought but President Biden can declare that “transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time.” Continue Reading »

5 Apr 2022

The Making of History

by Mark Bauerlein

Jared Knott joins the podcast to discuss his book Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World. Continue Reading »

4 Apr 2022

Anchored Freedom

by Kurt Hofer

At the heart of our understanding of freedom must be the recognition that our freedom is given to us by God. Continue Reading »

4 Apr 2022

The Power of Pain

by Peter J. Leithart

Humans have always avoided painful conditions, but today our instinct to recoil has been institutionalized. Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2022

Letters

by Various

East and West In his memoirs of growing up in the U.S.S.R., Wolfgang Leonhard recalled how he and his mother, a German Marxist-Leninist, emigrated from Germany to the communist paradise. When they looked for a map of Moscow, their new home, they found only useless, outdated ones and official plans . . . . Continue Reading »