• Joel Miller on The Idea Machine - Bookish Questions
    Dec 9 2025

    Host Alan Cornett interviews author Joel Miller about his new book The Idea Machine.

    The Idea Machine

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    24 mins
  • CD 53 - Andrea Kirk Assaf on Lessons From the Stoics
    Oct 14 2025

    My guest is my friend Andrea Kirk Assaf, whom I have known for, well, a few decades now. She is the author most recently of 365 Lessons From the Stoics as well as other books that we discuss. Andrea lives in Rome where she and her husband Tony host and teach students in a villa overlooking Vatican City. Andrea is also the youngest daughter of Russell Kirk for whom Kirktober is a celebration.

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    57 mins
  • CD 52 - Christopher J. Scalia on 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love
    Sep 30 2025

    Christopher J. Scalia is at the American Enterprise Institute. He and I have been Twitter mutuals for awhile, but I had the pleasure of meeting Chris in Grand Rapids at a Kirk-Scruton conference a couple of weeks ago. Chris is a literature guy, and the conservative movement needs that. To encourage us he has written a new book from Regnery, 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (But Probably Haven’t Read).

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Rose Sheffler on Past Watchful Dragons - Bookish Questions
    Sep 16 2025

    Host Alan Cornett interviews R.J. (Rose) Sheffler on her new book Past Watchful Dragons from Word on Fire.

    Past Watchful Dragons

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    17 mins
  • CD 51 - BJ Dobski on Twain's Joan of Arc
    Jul 29 2025

    Bernard J. Dobski is professor of political science at Assumption University. He is the author of Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc, which explores the significance of the famous author’s last published work in his lifetime. We also discuss the new Martin Scorsese Joan of Arc TV dramatization.

    Mark Twain's Joan of Arc

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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Andrew Petiprin on The Faith Unboxed - Bookish Questions
    Jul 8 2025

    Andrew Petiprin is an author and host of the Ignatius Press Podcast. He was the guest Cultural Debris Episode 45.

    The Faith Unboxed

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    25 mins
  • CD 50 - Rod Dreher On Living In Wonder
    May 5 2025

    Rod Dreher's most recent book is Living In Wonder, Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age. Our conversation was recorded the day after Pope Francis died, so that was on our minds and receives a good bit of our discussion. Also, we discuss the new documentary series from Angel Studios based on Rod’s earlier book Live Not By Lies.

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    Living In Wonder

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • CD 49 - Thomas M. Ward On Boethius & Stoicism
    Feb 6 2025

    Professor Thomas M. Ward teaches at Baylor University. He is a philosopher who focuses on Medieval thought, especially the work of John Duns Scotus. He is the author most recently of After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher from Word on Fire. We discuss that book, Boethius, Stoicism, living in C.S. Lewis’s home in Oxford, and who is Johhn Duns Scotus anway?

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    1 hr and 13 mins