Hopeless Romantics https://youtu.be/eJLdv6U3QBM In this semi-live episode, the Pugsters return to Romanticism, a topic we’ve touched on in a number of other Pugcasts. After a quick explanation of Romanticism as a response to cultural stress, the guys discuss some of the pathologies that have entered Western society as a result of the Romantic movement, including …
Truth and Falsehood In a Lying Age https://youtu.be/5QyjWqZJBLo On today’s show the guys unpack aspects of contemporary culture and its move away from ontological truth. Language, once it’s detached from referencing the real, becomes a field of competing power plays and conflict. How are Christians to enact truthfulness, avoid falsehood in their discernment of truth, …
Will the Real Conservative Intellectuals Please Stand Up? : An Interview with Dr. Luke Sheahan https://youtu.be/_wIdcAFRUL8 Today the Pugsters are joined by Dr. Luke Sheahan, President of The Academy of Philosophy and Letters, and Editor of The University Bookman. Among other things, Luke is an authority on the intellectual history of conservatism in the United …
The Importance of Story: A Conversation with Moira Greyland Peat and Rachel Fulton Brown https://youtu.be/lnKQMD5gVsQ In this episode, Moira Greyland Peat and Rachel Fulton Brown return for the first time together as Pugcast guests to explore the importance of story and imaginative fiction as a vehicle for communicating truth in ways that can transcend nonfiction. …
The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis https://youtu.be/ov3PhvgolyIToday the Pugsters are happy to welcome Jason Baxter on the show! Jason is the author of a new book on C. S. Lewis entitled: The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind. Have you ever wondered why no one seems to …
Here Comes Transhumanism, Ready or Not! https://youtu.be/2sjC_jcdDUsEver feel like an upgraded body would be good to have? You’re not alone, and there are people who are ready to help–for a price. How about an extra 10 years of life, wouldn’t that be nice? Why stop there? Why not an extra 20, or 100, or 10,000? …
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The Dumbest Generation Grows Up! : An Interview with Mark Bauerlein https://youtu.be/FovgYAy5zAwToday the Pugcast is joined by Mark Bauerlein, professor emeritus of English at Emory University and an editor at First Things. Mark made waves back in 2008 with his book, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future …
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Pagan Easter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Syxb25Xwrg&t=960sThis is the time of year when we get a lot of memes about how Easter is a warmed-over pagan holiday. Everything from the name “Easter” to the use of eggs and rabbits is a claimed to be connected to a pagan fertility goddess. Our resident historian Glenn takes great delight in debunking …
Varieties of Relativism https://youtu.be/AwJ1McDlwlc Tom introduces one of the driving assumptions that is underwriting the flux and chaos of current social trends: the assumption that truth is relative, perspectival, unable to be attained apart from our individual or group filters. The guys join in with many historical and contemporary insights into some key figures and …
In Defense of Mysticism https://youtu.be/H_Rqf85UOvE Many Christians today reject altogether the idea of Christian mysticism, but it has a long history in the church going back to the first centuries. The early church recognized three different types of mysticism: scriptural, which involved looking for symbolic or allegorical meanings in Scripture; liturgical, focused usually on the …