The rise of God as capricious and willful

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3. The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
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Links to posts and programs featuring Oliver O'Donovan:

• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
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Links to posts and programs featuring Adam K. Webb:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

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• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

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• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

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• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

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• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Craig M. Gay:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

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• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

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• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Tim Clydesdale:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring J. Mark Bertrand:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Mathew Levering:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

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• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Kirk Farney:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters
• What Ockham severed
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics
• The life of the wise man should be social
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division
• How radical is our individualism?
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End
• A capricious god, a meaningless world

Links to posts and programs featuring Bradley J. Birzer:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Ralph C. Wood:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

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• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Gil Bailie:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Zygmunt Bauman:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Matthew Lee Anderson:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Mike Aquilina:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Bishop Robert Barron:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Frederick Buechner:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Jeffrey Bilbro:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring James A. Herrick:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Andrew Wilson:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Susan Cain:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Marilyn McEntyre:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Andrew Spencer:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Albert Borgmann:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Catherine Prescott:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Maggie M. Jackson:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Garret Keizer:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Andy Crouch:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Kyle Hughes:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Philip G. Ryken:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Eric Miller:

• Modernity’s fateful encounter with weird, wayward sisters — Richard Weaver describes the cultural consequences of a decisive metaphysical mistake
• What Ockham severed — Jean-Charles Nault on the advent of sheer freedom
• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• The life of the wise man should be social — Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• How radical is our individualism? — Michael Martin on the late medieval origins of our current confusion
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)
• A capricious god, a meaningless world — Louis Dupré on the emergence of “pure nature”

Links to posts and programs featuring Landon Loftin:

• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)

Links to posts and programs featuring Barry Hankins:

• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)

Links to posts and programs featuring Quentin Schultze:

• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)

Links to posts and programs featuring Paul Walker:

• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)

Links to posts and programs featuring Jason Peters:

• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)

Links to posts and programs featuring Alexander Lingas:

• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)

Links to posts and programs featuring Fr. Damian Ference:

• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)

Links to lectures and commentary by Ken Myers:

• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)

Links to posts and programs featuring David Cayley:

• The tasks, conditions, and limits of democratic politics — Excerpts from three interviews with Jean Bethke Elshtain about her concern that democracy might not be able to survive widespread distrust or the dynamics of identity politics. (37 minutes)
• Questioning the “sacred-secular” division — With the stage set by Michael Sandel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, David L. Schindler, and John Milbank, Andrew Willard Jones examines a medieval alternative to the modern liberal paradigm. (61 minutes)
• Democratic Authority at Century’s End — Jean Bethke Elshtain summarizes mid-twentieth-century concerns of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) about the growing suspicion about the very idea of authority. (41 minutes)