Quiet misanthropy vs. Christian humanism
Bishop Robert Barron explores the misanthropic and inherently unstable anthropology at the heart of the modern university and offers an alternative for human flourishing. (46 minutes)
Augusto Del Noce’s critique of modernity
The restless vanity of the untrammeled self
Sociologist Daniel Bell on the rise of “the idea that experience in and of itself was the supreme value”
Jeremy Beer: “On Christopher Lasch”
Jeremy Beer describes the intellectual trajectory of cultural historian Christopher Lasch, who critiqued the modern “anxiously narcissistic” self and the culture that produced it. (55 minutes)