The paradoxes of therapeutic culture
Stephen Gardner and Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn discuss Philip Reiff’s diagnosis of how psychology replaced the social roles of religion, morality, and custom, redefining the meaning of what is public. (39 minutes)
The Me Decade and the triumph of the therapeutic
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn reflects on the similarities between Philip Rieff’s complex cultural analysis and the breathless and breezy accounts of modern culture produced by Tom Wolfe. (15 minutes)
Mickey Craig & Jon Fennell: “Love in the Age of Neuroscience”
Mickey Craig and Jon Fennell argue that sexual confusion is a symptom of a larger crisis prominently explored in Tom Wolfe’s novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons. (38 minutes)
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 82
FEATURED GUESTS: Stephen Gardner, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, Wilfred McClay, David Wells, James K. A. Smith, and Robert Littlejohn