Episodes

  • S7 Ep732: Destroy Your Opponents: Political Annihilation and the Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life

    S7 Ep732: Destroy Your Opponents: Political Annihilation and the Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life
    Sep 18 2025
    The battle of ideas in our common life begins with confronting nihilism.
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    10 mins
  • S7 Ep731: The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life--Existential Despair (3 of 4)

    S7 Ep731: The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life--Existential Despair (3 of 4)
    Aug 31 2025
    Part 3 of 4: Existential despair means hopelessness about human life having meaning and purpose. How does this lead to danger in our common life?
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    11 mins
  • S7 Ep730: Ethical Incoherence--The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life (2 of 4)

    S7 Ep730: Ethical Incoherence--The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life (2 of 4)
    Aug 5 2025
    The two ways our common life has become ethically incoherent, and what we can do to begin to make a good and just society
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    11 mins
  • S7 Ep729: The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life--Epistemic Failure (1 of 4)

    S7 Ep729: The Four Nihilisms in Our Common Life--Epistemic Failure (1 of 4)
    Jun 25 2025
    Our dysfunctional politics follow a hollowed-out metaphysics of meaning making.
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    10 mins
  • S7 Ep728: The Moral World Of The MAGA Movement Must Be Taken Seriously. Here's Why.

    S7 Ep728: The Moral World Of The MAGA Movement Must Be Taken Seriously. Here's Why.
    May 25 2025
    You need to understand the underlying belief system that underwrites the moral world of the movement that goes by the name "Make America Great Again." Why? Because eventually this underlying belief system will bring down everything you cherish.
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    9 mins
  • S7 Ep727: Is Progressivism Dying? Why Secular Progressives Should Care About The New Pope

    S7 Ep727: Is Progressivism Dying? Why Secular Progressives Should Care About The New Pope
    May 17 2025
    Progressivism is in retreat, not just in the United States but around the world. Catholic Social Teaching provides a wellspring to morally thirsty people. Can secular progressives come and drink?
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    9 mins
  • S7 Ep726: The Moral Lens On Our Common Life: Changing How We Think and Talk About Public Questions

    S7 Ep726: The Moral Lens On Our Common Life: Changing How We Think and Talk About Public Questions
    May 7 2025
    The moral lens on our common life is a way to address our broken politics. Our politics is broken because we are an aimless people, unable to think and talk about meaning and purpose.
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    9 mins
  • S7 Ep725: Fairness Impossible: How Reporting on Federal Judges Feeds Polarization and Threatens the Constitutional Order

    S7 Ep725: Fairness Impossible: How Reporting on Federal Judges Feeds Polarization and Threatens the Constitutional Order
    Apr 27 2025
    How a standard practice in reporting on federal judges increases cynicism and polarization.
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    9 mins