PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 106
Adam Briggle, author of A Rich Bioethics: Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council, on how Leon Kass’s leadership of the President’s Council on Bioethics attempted to reframe public thinking about ethical matters
John C. Médaille, author of Toward a Truly Free Market, on why economics should be concerned with ethical matters from the bottom up
Christopher Page, author of The Christian West and Its Singers, on how the presence of choral music in the Church shaped the rise of the West
Christian Smith, author of What is a Person?, on why sociologists need a richer understanding of human nature and human personhood and should recognize love as an essential human attribute
Herman Daly, contributor to What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth, on why he and Wendell Berry are disturbed by the lack of attention paid by classical economics to the realities of the material world
Thomas Hibbs, author of Shows About Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture from The Exorcist to Seinfeld, on the dark nihilism in the films of Woody Allen
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