Let Us Keep the Feasts The roots of festivity in the gifts of creation and new creation. Tom introduces the topic of festivity by drawing insights from Joseph Pieper’s work, exploring the true nature of and purposes of festivity in the Christian vision of things. As we enter the festive season of Thanksgiving and Advent, …
Kill the Dragon, Get the Girl This episode begins with a brief follow up on last week’s episode on the Great Reset, focused on how we should respond and where our hope lies. From there, Glenn segues into a discussion of some elements of Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy Stories” and its connection to Doug Wilson’s …
Against the Great Reset, or Why Property Is Freedom A proposal has been circulated among global elites and it goes by the name, ‘The Great Reset’. The values undergirding it are the standard cant—‘inclusion’, ‘fairness’, ‘equality’. It also includes promises of debt forgiveness and universal basic income. Alarmingly, the people behind it are some of …
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The Vice of Curiosity This week Tom introduces the topic about our intellectual appetites in relation to classical Christian insight. He looks into the virtue of proper studiousness as part of our intellectual vocation and its sinful distortion by the vice of curiosity. Glenn and Chris bring in plenty of additional insight and reflective comments …
In Living Memory Glenn and the guys share thoughts on the liturgical year and the ways that holidays and sacraments guide us both in remembering the past and finding our place in God’s story.
Postconstitutional America & the Cult of Expertise In today’s show Chris presents a book review published in First Things. The title of the review is “Postconstitutional America” and the book being reviewed is “The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return” by Michael Anton. The review can serve as an introduction to Leo Stauss …
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The Boniface Option As Christians dwell in societies given over to nihilism, and as they encounter nihilism’s dreadful impact on institutions that once propped classical intellectual, spiritual, and moral virtues, they are left with limited options in preserving and protecting those virtues which sustain creaturely flourishing and aim towards their fulfillment in God. Tom, Glenn, …
God, Guns, and Government: An Interview About the 2nd Amendment with John Zmirak, Senior Editor of The Stream The Pugcast is pleased to welcome to the show another one of Chris’s dangerous friends–John Zmirak, Senior editor of The Stream. Chris describes John as “Don Rickles meets Pope Benedict”–when you listen, you’ll see why. John is …
The Forge of Tolkien: An Interview with Rachel Fulton Brown (Plus a bonus feature! Learn about Milo Yiannopolous!) In today’s show the Pug is proud to welcome Professor Rachel Fulton Brown! Rachel is a professor of medieval history at the University of Chicago and has begun a new video series entitled The Forge of Tolkien …
Music and the Liberal Arts Glenn starts this episode with an overview of the medieval understanding of the liberal arts, then focuses in on music. Music was part of the quadrivium, the mathematical arts that described objective reality. Why is that? Why is music so significant for medieval thinkers? How does music relate to the …