PREVIEW
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Guests heard on Volume 44
James Davison Hunter, author of The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil, on contemporary understandings of morality
Brian C. Robertson, author of There’s No Place Like Work: How Business, Government, and Our Obsession with Work Have Driven Parents from Home, on historical changes in attitudes toward work and home
David Myers, author of The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty, on why being rich doesn’t seem to make us happy (Archive Feature available)
Robert Frank, author of Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess, on the perils of conspicuous consumption (Archive Feature available)
Gayle Brandow Samuels, author of Enduring Roots: Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape, on trees, landscape, and cultural identity (Archive Feature available)
Thomas Hine, author of The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager (Harper Perennial, 2000), on perceptions of teenagers in American history and in pop culture (Archive Feature available)
Thomas Hibbs, author of Shows about Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture, on Seinfeld, Hannibal Lecter, and nihilism in popular culture (Archive Feature available)
Robin Leaver, author of J. S. Bach as Preacher: His Passions and Music for Worship, on how Bach expressed theological concepts in his compositions
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