PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 48
Jon Butler, author of Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776, on the United States as a modern society — in 1776 (Archive Feature available)
Gary Cross, author of An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America, on American consumer society (Archive Feature available)
Zygmunt Bauman, author of Liquid Modernity, on the loss of permanence and solidity
Pico Iyer, author of The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home, on global nomads
Richard Stivers, author of Technology As Magic: The Triumph of the Irrational, on sex and violence in media and the rule of technology
Larry Woiwode, author of What I Think I Did: A Season of Survival in Two Acts, on stories and giving form to experience
Alan Jacobs, on Phillip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy
James Trott, editor of A Sacrifice of Praise: An Anthology of Christian Poetry in English from Caedman to the Mid-Twentieth Century, on poetry and piety (Archive Feature available)
Zygmunt Bauman, author of Liquid Modernity, on political consequences of “liquid modernity” (extended interview)
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