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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…
4 years, 3 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…
4 years, 4 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…
4 years, 4 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…
4 years, 4 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…
4 years, 4 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…
4 years, 5 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…
4 years, 5 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…
4 years, 5 months ago
Talking About God Improperly
Season 4 Episode 161
Tom adds to his previous topic of speaking properly about God and takes it into the other direction. He notes that shifts in ideas of God led to shif…
4 years, 5 months ago
Sacred Architecture and the New Urbanism
Season 4 Episode 160
Today the Pugcast is joined by David Stocker, architect, and one of the principals of SHM Architects in Dallas, Texas. David is a great friend of the…
4 years, 5 months ago