PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 70
W. Wesley McDonald, author of Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology, on the significance of Russell Kirk’s themes of the “permanent things” and “the moral imagination”
C. Ben Mitchell, co-editor of Aging, Death, and The Quest for Immortality, on law, wisdom, and the possibilities of pastoral guidance on bioethical decisions
Carl Elliott, author of Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream, on the medical industry’s move from healing to enhancing self-esteem and identity formation
Richard Weikart, author of From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany, on the rise of “evolutionary ethics,” the embrace toward ethical relativism, and the slide toward eugenics (Archive Feature available)
Christine Rosen, author of Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement, on how and why early twentieth-century American religious leaders encouraged eugenics in the name of moral progress
Dana Gioia, on the decline in literary reading in America and on the cultural loss it signifies (Archive Feature available)
C. Ben Mitchell on the benefits of living in multi-generational communities and on why and how the Church should be more welcoming toward the elderly
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