PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 99
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, author of Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, on how the abuse of language creates distrust in the power of words and on how we can be better stewards of the gift of language
Paul A. Rahe, author of Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect, on the heresy of progressivism, which abandons vital convictions about human nature and political order and invites the advent of “soft despotism”
James L. Nolan, Jr., author of Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing: The International Problem-Solving Court Movement, on how European countries have adopted the American model of problem-solving courts (and what they also get in the bargain)
Andrew J. Cherlin, author of The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today, on why the twin American commitments to marriage and to expressive individualism hurt families
Dale Kuehne, author of Sex and the iWorld: Rethinking Relationship Beyond an Age of Individualism, on the faulty assumption that intimate relationships demand sexual involvement, and on how the essentially relational nature of the Gospel is ignored
Alison Milbank, author of Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians: The Fantasy of the Real, on how the fantasy writings of G. K. Chesterton and J. R. R. Tolkien are intended to reconnect readers with reality
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