The historian's communal role as storyteller

The historian’s communal role as storyteller

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Historian Christopher Shannon discusses how American academic historical writing presents a grand narrative of progressivism, which it defends by subscribing to an orthodoxy of objective Reason. (21 minutes)
The loss of awe, the idolatry of partial thinking

The loss of awe, the idolatry of partial thinking

Thaddeus J. Kozinski on reading modernity’s symptoms wisely (and wonder-fully)
The inevitability of escalating public animosity

The inevitability of escalating public animosity

With excerpts from books and lectures by Alasdair MacIntyre, Oliver O'Donovan, and Wendell Berry, Ken Myers argues that modern political theory has guaranteed increasing levels of public conflict. (19 minutes)
How science became the omnipotent arbiter of genuine knowledge

How science became the omnipotent arbiter of genuine knowledge

Peter Harrison on the creation of an allegedly neutral public sphere
The problem with patriotism in secular democracies

The problem with patriotism in secular democracies

Alasdair MacIntyre on the systematic rejection of the tradition of the virtues in modern political institutions
Principles have to be discovered, not chosen

Principles have to be discovered, not chosen

Alasdair MacIntyre on the problem of natural law and contemporary culture
The danger of a self-marginalizing religion

The danger of a self-marginalizing religion

Alasdair MacIntyre on how the task of religion is to help see the secular as the sacred, the world as under God.
Roger Kimball: “Josef Pieper: Leisure and Its Discontents”

Roger Kimball: “Josef Pieper: Leisure and Its Discontents”

Roger Kimball introduces listeners to Josef Pieper’s arguments about the nature of leisure, which are claims about the nature of philosophy and of human well-being. (34 minutes)
Why Johnny can’t think coherently

Why Johnny can’t think coherently

Alasdair MacIntyre on the importance of theology in liberal arts education
Free trade zone for preferences

Free trade zone for preferences

Philip Turner examines “the subversion of Christian belief and practice by the logic of autonomous individualism”