PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 96
David A. Smith, author of Money for Art: The Tangled Web of Art and Politics in American Democracy, on the beginnings of the National Endowment for the Arts and the capacity of the arts in a democracy for combatting atomistic individualism
Kiku Adatto, author of Picture Perfect: Life in the Age of the Photo Op, on how images, words, and ideas interact in a visually saturated culture and on how the image of a person’s face in a photograph has the capacity for intimate representation of inner personhood
Elvin T. Lim, author of The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush, on how presidential speeches have been dumbed down for decades and why presidents like it
David Naugle, author of Reordered Love, Reordered Lives: Learning the Deep Meaning of Happiness, on the deeper meaning of happiness, the disordering effects of sin, and the reordering of love made possible in our redemption
Richard Stivers, author of The Illusion of Freedom and Equality, on the technologizing of all of life
John Betz, author of After Enlightenment: The Post-Secular Vision of J. G. Hamann, on the critique of the Enlightenment offered by Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788), and why it still matters to us
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