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Guests heard on Volume 129

Nicholas Carr, author of The Glass Cage: Automation and Us, on how automation technologies make our lives easier — while detaching us from the practices of engaging the world that are most fulfilling for us

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Robert Pogue Harrison, author of Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age, on the challenges of nurturing the inner lives and loves of our children to enable them to receive the legacies of our culture

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R. J. Snell, author of Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire, on how the vice of acedia denies the being of Creation

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Norman Wirzba, author of From Nature to Creation: A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World, on how a Scriptural imagination allows us to perceive the world as Creation (not just as nature) (Conversation available)

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Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski, authors of The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings, on how the Inklings were critical of modernity in the interest of restoring Western culture to its Christian roots

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Peter Phillips, founder of The Tallis Scholars, on the “tintinnabuli” style of composition in the works of Arvo Pärt (Archive Feature available)

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