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Back to EpisodesFinding Meaning in the Matrix | Interview: Arthur Brooks
Description
In a blast from the past, Jonah sits down with his former job foreman and slumlord, Arthur Brooks, to discuss finding meaning in a complicated and empty world. Arthur and Jonah talk about the difficult conditions of modernity, phone discipline, living like your grandparents, identity portfolios, religion, love, friendship, starting The Dispatch, and Arthur's six steps for finding life's meaning.
Show Notes:
—Arthur Brooks: The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness
—Charles Murray: Taking Religion Seriously
—Charles Murray on The Remnant
—Malcolm Muggeridge: Something Beautiful for God: The Classic Work on a Skeptic's Conversion Through Mother Teresa's Exemplary Influence
—Helen Andrews: “The Great Feminization”
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