2019

Productive Property: What It Is & Why It Is Essential for Liberty In today’s show Chris introduces a subject that he’s written a lot about: productive property.Sometimes it is called “real property”–but whatever the name, we’re not talking about your tooth brush here. Where talking about what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they …

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Transhumanism: Frankenstein Returns In today’s episode Glenn introduces listeners to “transhumanism”–a philosophy and engineering project concerned with transcending the given limits of human nature. Transhumanists view the body solely as a machine, and the mind is somehow both dependent upon it, yet utterly distinct. (This should remind listeners a little of Descartes.) But what transhumanism …

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Life After the Welfare State In today’s episode Chris begins with a simple truth: since modern welfare states are not the Kingdom of God they will end someday. This leads to a discussion of disincentives for having children in welfare states and why that spells their demise in the long run. Naturally debt is used …

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Liberty or License: What Does it Mean to Be Free? In today’s episode Glenn discusses an important distinction that is lost on most people today–the difference between liberty and license. The Founding Fathers of the United States understood the difference, and they did their best to structure American government in order to preserve liberty and …

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The Barmen Declaration & Saying “No!” to Cultural Accommodation In today’s show, Tom introduces listeners to the Barmen Declaration of 1934. He then helps listeners understand what genuine resistance to the Nazis looked like at the time, and how many German churches had been coopted by cultural trends. In our ideological age, cut off from both …

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Underground LGBT Networks in Evangelical Institutions Today’s show begins with Chris’s memories of three LGBT networks that existed in evangelical institutions. These are not hearsay stories, the people involved remain nameless, but Chris knew them personally. Most troubling was the way these networks recruited new members and initiated them. In each case theology was twisted …

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A Conversation with Aaron Renn Chris is in Dallas, and Glenn is on the road, and Tom feels too lonely to record a show. So, we dig into Chris’s personal vault of recorded stuff this week for a conversation with Aaron Renn, publisher of the Masculinist.Chris and Aaron are joined by David Talcott, professor of …

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Fighting Back: Protestant Resistance Theory In today’s show Glenn provides an introduction to Protestant Resistance Theory. You may have wondered, are Christians the doormats of human history? Do we always turn the other cheek? Do you ever run out of cheeks? Is punching back ever justified, not just in self-defense, but in armed resistance against …

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Blue Collar Intellectuals In today’s show Chris introduces listeners to two of his favorite writers–Matthew Crawford, author of Shop Class as Soulcraft, and Eric Hoffer, author of The True Believer. Both men could be described as “blue collar intellectuals” because they actually are (or were) blue collar men. Crawford is a motorcycle mechanic and Hoffer …

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Can Enchantment Come with Air-Conditioning? In today’s show Tom returns to the theme on technology but this time with an eye toward responding to Glenn’s thoughts on enchantment. Is it possible to have the best of both–or must we choose between a world of creature comforts made possible by technology, or an uncomfortable but meaningful world? Fittingly, …

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