Episodes

  • S7 Ep729: The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life--Epistemic Failure (1 of 4)

    S7 Ep729: The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life--Epistemic Failure (1 of 4)
    Jun 25 2025
    Our dysfunctional politics follow a hollowed-out metaphysics of meaning making.
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    10 mins
  • S7 Ep728: The Moral World Of The MAGA Movement Must Be Taken Seriously. Here's Why.

    S7 Ep728: The Moral World Of The MAGA Movement Must Be Taken Seriously. Here's Why.
    May 25 2025
    You need to understand the underlying belief system that underwrites the moral world of the movement that goes by the name "Make America Great Again." Why? Because eventually this underlying belief system will bring down everything you cherish.
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    9 mins
  • S7 Ep727: Is Progressivism Dying? Why Secular Progressives Should Care About The New Pope

    S7 Ep727: Is Progressivism Dying? Why Secular Progressives Should Care About The New Pope
    May 17 2025
    Progressivism is in retreat, not just in the United States but around the world. Catholic Social Teaching provides a wellspring to morally thirsty people. Can secular progressives come and drink?
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    9 mins
  • S7 Ep726: The Moral Lens On Our Common Life: Changing How We Think and Talk About Public Questions

    S7 Ep726: The Moral Lens On Our Common Life: Changing How We Think and Talk About Public Questions
    May 7 2025
    The moral lens on our common life is a way to address our broken politics. Our politics is broken because we are an aimless people, unable to think and talk about meaning and purpose.
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    9 mins
  • S7 Ep725: Fairness Impossible: How Reporting on Federal Judges Feeds Polarization and Threatens the Constitutional Order

    S7 Ep725: Fairness Impossible: How Reporting on Federal Judges Feeds Polarization and Threatens the Constitutional Order
    Apr 27 2025
    How a standard practice in reporting on federal judges increases cynicism and polarization.
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    9 mins
  • S7 Ep724: How Liberals Helped Make America's Moral Mess

    S7 Ep724: How Liberals Helped Make America's Moral Mess
    Apr 16 2025
    On the necessity of hierarchies of virtue in a time of nihilism
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    8 mins
  • S7 Ep723: Absurdity As A Weapon: What You Need to Understand about the Attack on Goodness in Our Common Life

    S7 Ep723: Absurdity As A Weapon: What You Need to Understand about the Attack on Goodness in Our Common Life
    Apr 5 2025
    Separating words from their meanings is a tactic in the battle to erode the authority of goodness to constrain powerful people from acting badly.
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    8 mins
  • S7 Ep722: Civic Friendship to Civic Enmity: What You Need to Understand about this Moral Shift in Our Common Life

    S7 Ep722: Civic Friendship to Civic Enmity: What You Need to Understand about this Moral Shift in Our Common Life
    Mar 29 2025
    Using our government's recent security breach on Signal and Jeffrey Goldberg's reporting on it as a point of departure, we help you understand the friend/enemy binary in our society.
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    10 mins