PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 69
John McWhorter, author of Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care, on the death of formal speech
Douglas Koopman, co-author of Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush’s Faith-Based Initiatives, on the mis-steps and misunderstandings that hampered the Bush administration’s implementation of Faith-Based Initiatives
Daniel Ritchie, on the survival of “Great Books” programs at religious colleges (Archive Feature available)
Vincent Miller, author of Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture, on how the commodification of everything affects our sense of religious faith and practice (and on how we can resist)
Barrett Fisher, on the sources of humor in the two versions of The Ladykillers, and on the history of very serious thinking about what makes something funny (extended interview)
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