Cloning, Sheepzilla, and Transhumanism https://youtu.be/9g1l3uIXTsQ Working off a Breakpoint article on a Montana man serving time for cloning a Central Asian bighorn sheep and crossbreeding it with American bighorns to produce 300 plus pound sheep for hunting preserves (yes, it really happened), the guys get into a discussion about cloning, designer babies, life extension and …
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An Interview with Vishal Mangalwadi https://youtu.be/hxAfZVcngYA In this episode, Glenn and honorary Pug John West of the Discovery Institute interview Indian Christian philosopher Vishal Mangalwadi about his life, his proposals for recovering the role of the church in higher education, and his analysis of where Western culture epistemology went wrong. This last point generated a …
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Who Are the Techno-Utopians? https://youtu.be/eUvWCc6ktoU Today Chris shares some thoughts on techno-utopianism–namely, what characterizes it? He proffers six distinctives and asks the guys to reflect with him on them. He suggests that while very few people would say they’re on board with all six, most people seem to at least think that technology inevitably makes …
Life on the Silent Planet! https://youtu.be/GL7MM68d6MM Today the Pugs welcome Rhys Laverty (all the way from the UK!) to discuss a new collection of essays on C. S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy (sometimes misleadingly known as the Space Trilogy). The collection is being published under the title ‘Life on the Silent Planet’ by the Davenant Trust. …
Are Russell Brand and Jordan Peterson Idolatrous Pseudo-Christians? https://youtu.be/C-4TwYLT6-A This week’s episode engages an article by moral theologian, Luke Bretherton of Oxford, who suggests that the recent swath of conversions by public intellectuals like Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Paul Kingsnorth, and flirtations with Christianity by figures like Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray and Luise Perry are …
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What Do We Do with the Body? https://youtu.be/m8fdDyCERSY Unconfirmed reports coming out of North Carolina of the government simply bulldozing areas affected by Hurricane Helene without searching for bodies prompted Glenn to raise the question of how we think of and treat the bodies of the dead. Historically, Christians have always believed that we belong, …
Dark Enchantment https://youtu.be/ZQh1hfpID4o On today’s show Chris leads the Pugs in a reflection on the story of Jonah–not the Biblical prophet, but the seminary student Rod Dreher interviewed for his book, Living in Wonder. Jonah was raised in an evangelical home, and was even homeschooled, yet fell into a spell of dark enchantment that included …
Are We Really Becoming Pagans Again? https://youtu.be/Kz2AnsGtf7g On today’s show Tom brings along Paul Kingsnorth’s article, The Illusion of a Pagan West, for the Pugs to engage. Topics delved into range from why we still talk about Roman Civilization to the theatrics of subversive woke culture. Most interesting is Kingsnorth’s claim that we are not …
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Ideological History https://youtu.be/kkvRZ3JRy7E In this episode, Glenn the History Pug gets into revisionist histories on the left and the right that both argue that history has been distorted to favor elites, and that they have the real story about what happened. Oddly, they both identify people like Churchill as villains, though for different reasons, and …
Take Your Pick–Agency or Autonomy? https://youtu.be/rt_uXlywN4g Today the Pugs revisit Matthew B. Crawford’s book, Shop Class as Soulcraft. Among the many fascinating things discussed in it is the essential difference between autonomy and agency. Ironically, we live in a world of manufactured illusions of autonomy. We’re led to make choices between options presented to us …