PREVIEW

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Guests heard on Volume 103

Steven D. Smith, author of The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse, on how the law only makes sense in the context of certain metaphysical beliefs, and on why we aren’t allowed to talk about such things in public

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David Thomson, author of The Moment of Psycho: How Albert Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder, on the American Dream, acting, loneliness, the moral complicity of movie audiences, and the genius of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

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Adam McHugh, author of Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture, on how American culture distrusts introverts and on why their place in the Church needs to be valued

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Glenn C. Arbery, author of The Southern Critics: An Anthology, on the Vanderbilt Agrarians, poetry, and the moral imagination and the shaping of virtue

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Eric Miller, author of Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch, on Christopher Lasch’s intense commitment to understand the logic of American cultural confusion 

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Eric Metaxas, author of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, on how Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s early experiences prepared him for his heroic defiance of the Third Reich 

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