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Freedom as conformity to reality
W. Bradford Littlejohn summarizes the definitions of liberty offered by Richard Bauckham and Oliver O’Donovan
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Life without limits?
Robert Westbook on Christopher Lasch’s critique of the modern rejection of limits
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Why communities need authority
Alan Ehrenhalt argues that real community can only be sustained when three things are assumed: the goodness of limits, the necessity of authority, and the reality of personal sin. (13 minutes)
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Loving your neighbor during a pandemic
Brad Littlejohn reflects on how best to ask and answer some of the questions raised by our current disease-ravaged circumstances, particularly questions related to Christian freedom and love of neighbor. (29 minutes)
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Freedom and equality according to Flannery O’Connor
Three guests discuss Flannery O’Connor’s ideas: Henry T. Edmondson, III, on O’Connor’s understanding of political life; Ralph C. Wood, on O’Connor as a “hill-billy Thomist”; and Susan Srigley, on O’Connor’s sacramental and incarnational fiction. (18 minutes)
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Christopher Lasch: “Conservatism against Itself”
In this early article from First Things, historian Christopher Lasch poses the question of whether cultural conservatism is compatible with capitalism. (42 minutes)
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The unintended consequences of the Reformation
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A devilish temptation
Wendell Berry explains how the modern Western ideal of the sovereign self enshrines a story of the abandonment of restrictions and restraints in the name of human freedom.
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Hillbilly Thomists: Flannery O’Connor and the Truth of Things
Susan Srigley and Ralph Wood examine Flannery O’Connor's sacramental fiction and her understanding of the wisdom of limits. (60 minutes)