2025

What if Screwtape Were Female? An Interview with Tilly Dillehay https://youtu.be/JryxmyPH9p0 Today the Pugs are pleased to welcome to the show Tilly Dillehay, author of My Dear Hemlock. Tilly has taken Lewis’s ingenious book, The Screwtape Letters as inspiration for her book in which Madame Hoaxrot (a female Screwtape) instructs a junior temptress named Hemlock …

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Anthony Esolen on Artificial Intelligence and the Desecration of the Word https://youtu.be/J5YKEDmLulI Today the Pugcast is pleased to welcome Anthony Esolen on the show! Tony is a prolific author and translator. Perhaps his best known work is his translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Today the pugs ask Tony for his thoughts on Artificial Intelligence, particularly …

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Called to Freedom—An Interview with Brad Littlejohn https://youtu.be/fuzf07yfIZg The Pugcast is pleased to welcome Brad Littlejohn back on the show to discuss his latest book, Called to Freedom. If there’s one thing western culture seems to celebrate, it’s freedom. But just what are we talking about when we speak of it? Does freedom mean doing …

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Are Men Bibliophobes? https://youtu.be/9xFVHkV73TA If men would only read more, especially more fiction, would not political nightmares, such as our current presidential turn, be avoided? The feminized cultural commentators continue to think so. The pugs engage a recent Vox article that takes seriously such a claim, and while the article finds the claim to be …

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The Reality War https://youtu.be/675CiD3mT-4 Today the Pugs reflect on a Substack article by N. S. Lyons entitled, The Reality War. This insightful piece notes that we are living through a revival of the most pernicious of all heresies–Gnosticism. The bitter irony of our time is it is occurring in what many people have wrongly assumed …

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