S7 Ep732: Destroy Your Opponents: Political Annihilation and the Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life
The battle of ideas in our common life begins with confronting nihilism.
What In God's Name
Recasting the stories of our shared public life together, using theology and philosophy. Smart. Fun. Challenging both the programmatic secularists and the quasi-theocrats, by lifting up a generous public religious voice for the flourishing of all Creation.
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S7 Ep731: The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life--Existential Despair (3 of 4)
Part 3 of 4: Existential despair means hopelessness about human life having meaning and purpose. How does this lead to danger in our common life?
S7 Ep730: Ethical Incoherence--The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life (2 of 4)
The two ways our common life has become ethically incoherent, and what we can do to begin to make a good and just society
S7 Ep729: The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life--Epistemic Failure (1 of 4)
Our dysfunctional politics follow a hollowed-out metaphysics of meaning making.
S7 Ep728: The Moral World Of The MAGA Movement Must Be Taken Seriously. Here's Why.
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.
S7 Ep727: Is Progressivism Dying? Why Secular Progressives Should Care About The New Pope
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?
S7 Ep726: The Moral Lens On Our Common Life: Changing How We Think and Talk About Public Questions
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.
S7 Ep725: Fairness Impossible: How Reporting on Federal Judges Feeds Polarization and Threatens the Constitutional Order
How a standard practice in reporting on federal judges increases cynicism and polarization.
S7 Ep724: How Liberals Helped Make America's Moral Mess
On the necessity of hierarchies of virtue in a time of nihilism
S7 Ep723: Absurdity As A Weapon: What You Need to Understand about the Attack on Goodness in Our Common Life
Separating words from their meanings is a tactic in the battle to erode the authority of goodness to constrain powerful people from acting badly.