Culture

Stanley Hauerwas on how many modern Christians offered atheists less and less in which to disbelieve.

FEATURED GUESTS: James Davison Hunter, Paul Spears, Steven Loomis, James K. A. Smith, Thomas Long, and William T. Cavanaugh

FEATURED GUESTS: Jennifer Burns, Christian Smith, Dallas Willard, Peter Kreeft, P. D. James, James Davison Hunter, Paul McHugh, Ted Prescott, Ed Knippers, Martha Bayles, Dominic Aquila, Gilbert Meilaender, Neil Postman, and Alan Jacobs

FEATURED GUESTS: Maggie Jackson, Mark Bauerlein, Tim Clydesdale, Andy Crouch, and Jeremy Begbie

“If a society wishes to find a way of ensuring that newly emergent and valuable techniques are passed on and preserved, its members must feel themselves under an ethical obligation to leave the best possible world not only for their children, but also for their grandchildren.”

FEATURED GUESTS: Eric O. Jacobsen, Allan C. Carlson, Terence L. Nichols, R. R. Reno, David Bentley Hart, J. A. C. Redford, and Scott Cairns

The modern elevation of individual autonomy leads to postmodern suspicion of all authority, and eventually to postculturalism. Insights from Christopher Clausen and Philip Rieff.

FEATURED GUESTS: David Lyon, Christopher Wolfe, Patrick Fagan, Joseph Davis, Morris Berman, Frank Burch Brown, Robert K. Johnston, and Ralph C. Wood

FEATURED GUESTS: Christopher Clausen, Don Eberly, George Weigel, Luci Shaw, Steve Wilkens, David Harvey, John Durham Peters, and Masaaki Suzuki

FEATURED GUESTS: Michael Kammen, Philip Fisher, John Horgan, William Dembski, Steven Garber, Dorothy Bass, Paul Vitz, J. Budziszewski, and David Aikman

Four essayists reflect on the relationship between manners and morals, and address the way in which the survival of a democratic society depends upon its citizens' respect for one another. (90 minutes)