PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 94
Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, on how multitasking exalts efficiency and promises the overcoming of bodily limitations as time is restructured, and on the importance of attentiveness in sustaining personal and social order
Mark Bauerlein, author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, on how technologies have rearranged the social lives of teens (and their expectations of education)
Tim Clydesdale, author of The First Year Out: Understanding American Teens After High School, on what the first year in college means for teens
Andy Crouch, author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, on the physical basis of cultural life and how “culture making” is done
Jeremy Begbie, author of Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music, on how music is a way of engaging with the order in Creation and on how writing and hearing music involves a recognition of likenesses in Creation and the exercise of “hyper-hearing”
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