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The End of Science? Cancel Culture and the Sciences
Season 2 Episode 79
In today's show Chris reads from an essay by Colin Wright the Managing Editor of Quillette, the online journal and podcast. He describes his own expe…
5 years, 11 months ago
Movies and Shows in a Nihilist Key: How Nihilistic Trends Have Impacted the Movie and Television Industry
Season 2 Episode 78
Tom introduces the topic by engaging Thomas Hibb’s book: Shows about Nothing. Chris and Glenn join in with many insights and rich analysis.
5 years, 11 months ago
A Tale of Two Revolutions
Season 2 Episode 77
In this episode, Glenn contrasts the secular, Enlightenment-inspired French Revolution with the spiritual revolution that transformed England at roug…
6 years ago
Why Should Christians Care about Self-Driving Cars?
Season 2 Episode 76
In today’s show Chris introduces the Pugcast crew to Matthew B. Crawford and his book, Why We Drive. Crawford is known for his writing on moral agenc…
6 years ago
On Weeds and Fairy Tales
Season 2 Episode 75
Glenn starts off the discussion with “On Weeds and Fairy Tales,” an article in Touchstone by Vigen Guroian. Guroian argues that reason and imaginatio…
6 years ago
From Impiety to Totalitarianism
Season 2 Episode 74
In today's show Chris reads portions of Leon R. Kass's, The Beginning of Wisdom. The book contains Kass's reflections on the book of Genesis. Kass is…
6 years ago
How the Current Cultural Trend Came to Absolutize the Present in Opposition to the Past
Season 2 Episode 73
This week Tom follows up his topic last week on Presentism. He introduces the topic of 'historicism' and looks at its role in setting the conditions …
6 years ago
The New Iconoclasm: Presentism and Its Trendy Enemies
Season 2 Episode 72
In this episode Tom introduces the topic of the intellectual fashion of making ‘present’ experience that which has utmost significance. He further sh…
6 years, 1 month ago
Culture to Language or Language to Culture?
Season 2 Episode 71
Glenn starts off by talking about Tolkien and philology, the study of language to understand culture, and looks at its role in creating Middle Earth.…
6 years, 1 month ago
Friendship According to: Aristotle, Aquinas, C. S. Lewis, and the Bible
Season 2 Episode 70
In today’s episode Chris raises the subject of friendship for consideration. What is it? How many forms of friendship are there? What’s the relations…
6 years, 1 month ago