What Judaism Teaches About Lust

by Rafi Eis

The Hebrew Bible and Talmud do not agree with Jesus in equating lust with adultery, but they indicate that the gap between these two sins is quite small. Continue Reading »

4 May 2023

The Mind of an Addict

by Mark Bauerlein

Michael W. Clune joins the podcast to discuss his memoir on drug addiction and recovery, White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin.  Continue Reading »

3 May 2023

Francis in Hungary

by Gladden J. Pappin

Against a media backdrop determined to frame Hungary as Europe’s black sheep, it certainly seems that the Holy Father would prefer, as he often says, to “smell of the sheep.” Continue Reading »

3 May 2023

Blessed Henri de Lubac?

by George Weigel

Without de Lubac’s pioneering work, the key texts of Vatican II would not be so richly scriptural and patristic in content and style. Continue Reading »

3 May 2023

Paradise in Savannah

by Mark Bauerlein

I can hardly imagine a more utopian time for a young intellectual, a reader of Great Books. Continue Reading »

2 May 2023

Culture of Fragility

by Simone M. Sepe

I bear a moral responsibility to uphold the truth and potentially disturb the comfort of those around me. Continue Reading »

2 May 2023

Spiritual Death of the West

by Nathan Pinkoski

The most important dystopian novels of the first half of the twentieth century are Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984. Huxley and Orwell captured the two sides of modern despotism, one soft and seductive, the other hard and punitive. The most important . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2023

Seneca, Poetry, and Suffering

by Mark Bauerlein

Dana Gioia joins the podcast to discuss his new translation of a Seneca play, Seneca: The Madness of Hercules. Continue Reading »

1 May 2023

Being Real

by Sarah Soltis

The Christian vision of reality requires that we reject both our culture’s false surrender to algorithms and attempts at self-creation. Continue Reading »

1 May 2023

Anti-Zionism Goes Woke

by Cole S. Aronson

Like a starving zombie, identity politics bites into longstanding left-wing ideas and movements, reforming them in its own image. Anti-Zionists are not immune, as shown by Berkeley’s ­Daniel Boyarin, one of America’s leading Talmudists and Jewish philologists, the author of acclaimed books . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2023