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The Dumbest Generation Grows Up! : An Interview with Mark Bauerlein
Season 4 Episode 171
Today the Pugcast is joined by Mark Bauerlein, professor emeritus of English at Emory University and an editor at First Things. Mark made waves back …
3 years, 8 months ago
Pagan Easter?
Season 4 Episode 170
This is the time of year when we get a lot of memes about how Easter is a warmed-over pagan holiday. Everything from the name “Easter” to the use of …
3 years, 9 months ago
Varieties of Relativism
Season 4 Episode 169
Tom introduces one of the driving assumptions that is underwriting the flux and chaos of current social trends: the assumption that truth is relative…
3 years, 9 months ago
In Defense of Mysticism
Season 4 Episode 168
Many Christians today reject altogether the idea of Christian mysticism, but it has a long history in the church going back to the first centuries. T…
3 years, 9 months ago
Duck Season! Rabbit Season! The Notorious Duck/Rabbit Problem!
Season 4 Episode 167
Well, which is it, a duck or a rabbit? Today the Pugsters examine the notorious duck/rabbit problem. You probably have seen the drawing, look at it o…
3 years, 9 months ago
Überhobbits: Engaging the Will To Power with Tolkien and Nietzsche
Season 4 Episode 166
Tom unpacks themes from David Blount's essay on Hobbits, Tolkien and Nietzsche in relation to the differing way power and is understood and related t…
3 years, 10 months ago
Welcome to Negative World: An Interview with Aaron Renn
Season 4 Episode 165
Aaron Renn joins the show once again, this time to discuss an article he wrote for First Things entitled, The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism. It’s ha…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ukraine and Russia: History and the Theology of Nationalism
Season 4 Episode 164
With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Glenn thought it a good time for a history lesson on Ukraine and Russia. As you might expect, he started over 1…
3 years, 10 months ago
Philip Rieff and His Life Among the Deathworks
Season 4 Episode 163
Philip Rieff was one of the most incisive critics of the postmodern turn in western culture of the last 50 years. A secular Jew, he longed for a worl…
3 years, 10 months ago
Fine Art and Cancel Culture: An Interview with Award-Winning Painter Arthur Kwon Lee
Season 4 Episode 162
What does it take to make it in the highly competitive world of New York City art? Arthur Kwon Lee knows, he’s a young painter who won awards and was…
3 years, 11 months ago