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FF-240105 transcript – D. C. Schindler on AI

By Rachel HicksNovember 9, 2026
D. C. Schindler on “AI”

ARCH-118.3 transcript – Mark Mitchell

By Rachel HicksNovember 5, 2026
Mark Mitchell on gratitude and stewardship as political postures

FF-261106 – Volume 146 excerpts

By Rachel HicksNovember 4, 2026
Hear excerpts from interviews with Mark Mitchell, Hans Boersma, Henry T. Edmondson III, Brian Clayton, Douglas Kries, and Carole Vanderhoof

FF-260619 – Glenn Arbery on the Vanderbilt Agrarians

By Rachel HicksOctober 1, 2026
Glenn Arbery on the Vanderbilt Agrarians

ARCH-050.8 transcript – Glen Arbery on why literature matters

By Rachel HicksOctober 1, 2026
Glen Arbery on why literature matters

ARCH-091.6 transcript – Patrick Deneen on Wendell Berry

By Rachel HicksSeptember 9, 2026
Patrick Deneen on Wendell Berry, “Kentucky Aristotelian”

ARCH-148.3 transcript – Jeffrey Bilbro on Wendell Berry

By Rachel HicksSeptember 8, 2026
Jeffrey Bilbro on Wendell Berry, virtue, and sustainable cultures

FF-260904 Excerpts from Vol 140 transcript

By Rachel HicksSeptember 4, 2026
Hear excerpts from interview with Matthew Rubery, James Herrick, Jeffrey Bilbro, Jack Baker, Timothy Gloege, David Hollinger, and Barrett Fisher

MHAJ-140 Fisher transcript

By Rachel HicksSeptember 3, 2026
Barrett Fisher on moral themes in the films of Martin Scorsese

MHAJ-140 Hollinger transcript

By Rachel HicksSeptember 3, 2026
David Hollinger on the impact of mid-century missionaries on foreign affairs

MHAJ-140 Gloege transcript

By Rachel HicksSeptember 3, 2026
Timothy Gloege on the making of modern evangelicalism

MHAJ-140 Baker & Bilbro transcript

By Rachel HicksSeptember 3, 2026
Jeffrey Bilbro and Jack Baker on Wendell Berry, place, and higher education
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Conversations from 2020


Every volume of the Journal produced since November 1999 (Volume 40) is now available to members in our catalog, and on the first Friday of each month, we will highlight one of these archived collections of interviews. The entire highlighted volume will be available for one month to members and to anyone who signs up for a free Visitor’s Pass.* 

Volume 146 of the Journal, produced in February 2020, is this month’s free sample volume. In this Friday Feature you will hear excerpts from interviews with Mark Mitchell about why the modern denigration of tradition has rendered political life so volatile; with Hans Boersma about how the ultimate end of seeing God should inform how we live now; with Henry Edmondson, III, about political ideas in Flannery O’Connor’s work; with Brian Clayton and Douglas Kries about integrating faith and reason; with Conor Sweeney about wrestling with the ‘death of God’ with the help of hobbit wisdom; and with Carole Vanderhoof about Dorothy L. Sayers. 

*Follow the instructions on our “Listen for free” page to sign up for a free Visitor’s Pass. With this Pass, you can download these audio files to our app on your mobile device. NB: We don’t sell or share our listeners’ information with anyone else. No one who signs up for any of our memberships, free or paid, need fear that their contact information will be sold or shared with any other entity.

Antón Barba-Kay on the shape of the virtues in the digital age


What virtues do we need to live well in our digital age, and how might those virtues be best formed, not only individually but as communities? In this March 2026 lecture, Antón Barba-Kay examines the notion of virtue ethics, a concept that has become increasingly alien to many. He then discusses how digital technology actively deforms, disassociates, and disembeds our lives and experiences. Barba-Kay proposes key principles that educational institutions can embody in order to help form virtuous human beings and communities in light of what we are; and he articulates three “interlocking” virtues that relate to those principles. Throughout the lecture, he offers reflections on these issues from his teaching experience at Deep Springs College, a unique school that forms students through academics, self-government, and manual labor.