PREVIEW

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Guests heard on Volume 69

John McWhorter, author of Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care, on the death of formal speech 

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Douglas Koopman, co-author of Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush’s Faith-Based Initiatives, on the mis-steps and misunderstandings that hampered the Bush administration’s implementation of Faith-Based Initiatives

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Daniel Ritchie, on the survival of “Great Books” programs at religious colleges 

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Vincent Miller, author of Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture, on how the commodification of everything affects our sense of religious faith and practice (and on how we can resist) 

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Barrett Fisher, on the sources of humor in the two versions of The Ladykillers, and on the history of very serious thinking about what makes something funny (extended interview)

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